Top 1200 What Is Poetry Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

I've written poetry most of my life.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

I read poetry to save time.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

History is the new poetry.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

It is poetry that changes everything.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

poetry is where the language is renewed.

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

The true essence of Chinese culture is sophistication, refinement, the spirit of poetry. The spirit of ink painting and calligraphy lives on forever. Calligraphy is more important than painting. Chinese always consider nature. Man is a very small part of nature. That's why in Chinese painting you see huge mountains and man very small, very humble before nature. You must be harmonious and one with nature. You don't fight it. And then there's a bit of a poetry. Of course, it's very complicated, but also very simple.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

Is not poetry the food of love?

Film has its own innate poetry.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry to me is prayer.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

Poetry is frosted fire.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because the language in a good poem is doing a lot of work emotionally and a lot of work intellectually. That means durable poetry can help us think about complexity, can help us resist easy answers and help us step back. And it can help us sometimes calm down, and sometimes it can help us stay upset.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just such a turn? And since the strange, the abyss and Medusa’s head, the abyss and the automaton, all seem to lie in the same direction—is it perhaps this turn, this Atemwende, which can sort out the strange from the strange? It is perhaps here, in this one brief moment, that Medusa’s head shrivels and the automaton runs down? Perhaps, along with the I, estranged and freed here, in this manner, some other thing is also set free?

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

After a full belly all is poetry.

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

I love to write music and poetry.

Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Poetry is a break for freedom.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

No one ever expects poetry to sell...

Actually, I'm working on a book of poetry.

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

My work should be seen as poetry.