Poetry Is Quotes - Page 2

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Poetry is an act of peace.

Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

Poetry is mostly hunches.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.