Poetry Quotes

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.