Quotes About Poetry

Gunnar Ekelöf's poem "Waterlilies

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

the best poems are those in which the author avoids concealment and obfuscation, and the truth of that person, eccentric, vulnerable, and brilliant, bears itself out in a sound heretofore unheard.

This [Welsh] language seems to be more particularly adapted for poetry; which, however extraordinary it may seem to some, on account of the multiplicity of gutturals and consonants with which it abounds, has the softness and harmony of the Italian, with the majesty and expression of the Greek.

Words his soul danced to.

Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely… It is simply the most ordinary place in the world…It was so shabby and makeshift … a place where poetry could never occur.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

We are all writing God's poem.

And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers

God is the perfect poet.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all the new enchanted earth to see.

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine.

Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.