Top 1200 Love Poetry Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

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

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

I love to write music and poetry.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

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

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

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

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 have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

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

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

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

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

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

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

I often say poetry was my first love.

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

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

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

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

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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 love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

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.

I love a little Richard Brautigan poetry.

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

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

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

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

I love poetry - just to read it and be around it.

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

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader and that meaning doesn't exist or in here in poems alone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets who, like Byron, express these states, Poetry would lack something.

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.

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

Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.

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

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