Poetry Quotes

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

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’

I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

The people need poetry that will be their own secret To keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.

Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Music is poetry with personality.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

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

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Be with those who help your being.