Poetry Quotes

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

The moment of change is the only poem.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.