Poetry Quotes

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.