Poetry Quotes

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.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.