Poetry Is Quotes - Page 4

All poetry is misrepresentation.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

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

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Poetry is a necessity of life.

Poetry is not a luxury.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

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

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

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.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

Poetry is frosted fire.