Poetry Quotes

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.