Poetry Is Quotes

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

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 journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

The poetry is myself.

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.

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

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

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

Poetry is not a luxury.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

Poetry is a necessity of life.

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.