Poetry Quotes

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.

The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.