Poetry Is Quotes - Page 6

The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

Poetry is the scholar's art.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more self-conscious about than prose.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.