Poetry Quotes

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief.

I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.

People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.