Top 1200 What Is Poetry Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

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

I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.