Poetry Is famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
-- A. E. Housman -
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
-- Adrian Mitchell -
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
-- Alan Watts -
Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
-- Alice Notley -
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
-- Amiri Baraka -
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.
-- Andreï Makine -
Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
-- Andrei Voznesensky -
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
-- Arnold Bennett -
For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
-- Audre Lorde -
Poetry is the purest form of insanity.
-- Augusta Jane Evans -
Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
-- Babette Deutsch -
...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...
-- Billy Collins -
Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
-- Brooks Atkinson -
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
-- C.D. Wright -
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
-- Carl Sandburg -
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
-- Carl Sandburg -
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
-- Charles Bukowski -
The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
-- David Biespiel -
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.
-- David Biespiel -
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
-- Dennis Gabor -
Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.
-- Diane Wakoski -
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.
-- Eavan Boland -
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
-- Elia Kazan -
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
-- Erica Jong -
The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.
-- Faiz Ahmad Faiz -
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
-- George Orwell -
Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.
-- Gunter Brus -
Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.
-- Hayden Carruth -
Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.
-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman -
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
-- Jack Prelutsky -
The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom
-- Jacques Lacan -
Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.
-- Jennifer Grotz -
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
-- Jerry B. Jenkins -
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset -
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
-- Joseph Joubert -
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
-- Joyce Carol Oates -
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
-- Lascelles Abercrombie -
Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language,
-- Laurence Overmire -
Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.
-- Lou Andreas-Salomé -
Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.
-- Louise Bogan -
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
-- Lucille Clifton -
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
-- Mahmoud Darwish -
I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.
-- Mark Haddon -
Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.
-- Marvin Bell -
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
-- Marvin Bell -
Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.
-- Mary Ruefle -
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
-- Matthew Arnold -
Poetry is music written for the human voice.
-- Maya Angelou -
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower
-- Michael Longley -
The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.
-- Mieczyslaw Jastrun -
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
-- Muriel Rukeyser -
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.
-- Muriel Rukeyser -
The act of making poetry is an act of hope.
-- Natasha Trethewey -
Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.
-- Nathalie Sarraute -
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
-- Norman MacCaig -
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
-- Octavio Paz -
Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.
-- Osip Mandelstam -
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
-- Peter Porter -
Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?
-- Reginald Shepherd -
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
-- Richard Hell -
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
-- Robert Frost -
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
-- Robert Morgan -
Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.
-- Roberto Bolano -
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
-- Russell Baker
