What Is Poetry Quotes

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

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

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.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

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

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.

Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody.

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

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

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

If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

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.'

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

Poetry is not a luxury.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

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

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

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

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.