Poetry Quotes

It ain't so easy writing about nothin

Speak without words. Know the weight of words

Later when they would mention, they would say, and everyone would know, but not nearly as well as they meant.

... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood...

I have heard queens' swans, moved a man to cry, heard Bach played in the Metro on guitars.I have made love in Paris. Let me die.

The breath of Paris pushes at my shutters.From the Balcony

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.

My love for Neo-Tokyo is a bulbous massof post-human organic circuitry.Cyperpunk is my mother tongue.My love is a man-machine interface gun.

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.

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

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

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

Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers' poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

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

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence it breaks walls down.

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

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.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.