Poetry Quotes

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

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

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

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

I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

Every angel is terrifying.

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?