Poetry Quotes

Poetry is life distilled.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.