Poetry Quotes

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.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

It's not easy to define poetry.

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

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.