Quotes About Interpretation

To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.

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

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

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

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.

You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

History is the new poetry.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

History after all is the true poetry.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.