Quotes About Poetry

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

If people read poetry, they would be happier.

I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.