Poetry Quotes

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.