Poetry Is Quotes

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

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

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.