Poetry Quotes

We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.