Top 1200 What Is Poetry Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

In poetry, only emotion endures.

Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

I often say poetry was my first love.

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

I like Raymond Carver's poetry a lot.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a prophet with honor and dignity, and abandoning the glory of poetry and just settling down in the muck of your own mindYou really have to make a resolution to write for yourself, in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most “intellectual” piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.