Poetry Quotes

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges.

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Wine is bottled poetry.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been interested in the poetry of melancholy, if you like.

It's after dark that I feel most inspired, I'm a nocturnal creature. I'll write poetry or streams of consciousness, play instruments, or teach myself to DJ by doing a silent solo set.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?