Poetry Quotes

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

The cliche is dead poetry.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.