Poetry Quotes
- Page 3Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
John Masefield
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Edith Hamilton
I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.
Diane Wakoski
Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
Andrea Dworkin
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
Simon Callow
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
Robert Morgan
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
A. R. Ammons
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
Peter Davison
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
Story Musgrave
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Satyajit Ray
Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
Lafcadio Hearn
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
Philip Levine
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
Caroline Kennedy
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
Mark Strand
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
Roger Waters