Top 1200 Great Poetry Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

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

I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.

Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a different language, which has to be learned.

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.

I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts.

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry - it's an art, a craft, it requires enormous commitment like any art. But there's a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It's the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really excited about poetry until I discovered Lorca in college. If it wasn't for surrealism, I'm not sure I'd have become so involved in poetry. I was attracted by the extravagant imagery and elements of fantasy. This was in the '70s and it seemed to fit the psychedelic mood of the times. I found it liberating.

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

The poetry of India can be truly known only through scanning the poetry of all languages.

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody reads poetry," and then a thousand people write back, "No, we read poetry." There's an abundance of this negative preaching to the choir, and it's very similar to the experience I'm having.

The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.