Quotes About Art

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.

Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.

There's no preparation for poetry.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.