Quotes about poetry
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poetry essentials needs
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it. Edward Hirsch
poetry use would-be
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. Edith Sitwell
poetry humanity
We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
poetry silence never-quit
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic
poetry
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. Natasha Trethewey
poetry teach
poetry had everything to teach me about life. Diane Ackerman
poetry seemed tremendous
When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large. Robert Hass
poetry soul burning
Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. Bob Dylan
poetry capes cages
Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.
poetry guilt answers
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built. Billy Bragg
poetry indignation
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] Juvenal
poetry saying whining
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. John Donne
poetry wrote
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. Tao Lin
poetry firsts sound
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. Charles Olson
poetry poetry-is barbaric
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. Denis Diderot
poetry littles spirituality
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it. Craig Johnson
poetry fruit mute
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Archibald MacLeish
poetry-is happens
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. Charles Bukowski
poetry subject war
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen
poetry refusal
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. Seamus Heaney
poetry bankers mysterious
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. Allen Tate
poetry roles manipulation
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. Allen Ginsberg
poetry whereas
Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it. Roger McGough
poetry though version
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you. Douglas Coupland
poetry
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
poetry produce
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. Norman MacCaig
poetry poet born
Poets are born, not paid. Addison Mizner
poetry prior published
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that. Robert Adamson
poetry time
Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.
poetry ted writes
Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people. Dave Evans