Poetry Quotes

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.