Poetry Quotes

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.