Quotes About Poetry

The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.'

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

The Hulk is like a haiku; you've got to find just the right words. I think, and I hope, we did that with The Avengers.

all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

Roses are red Violets are blueI don't go on this accountSo go away SHOO!

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.

Poetry is a disease vector. Like malaria.

Paranormal. It rolls off the tongue with such poetry but it means something like, beyond normal. There is nothing paranormal about magic. Magic is the norm. —Penny SweeneyMagic All Around

We got the spell exactly right. Except for the ingredients. And most of the poetry. And it probably wasn't the right time. And Gytha took most of it home for the cat, which couldn't of been proper.

Her face collapsed like a bad poem

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.