Poetry Quotes

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

The crown of literature is poetry.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.