Poetry Quotes

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.