Poetry Is Quotes - Page 7

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

Political poetry is the hardest thing to write because you cannot preach to the converted, and if you're only seeking to convert, then write an editorial. I hope I can write about Trump; he's too major a force not to be written about.

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

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.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.

poetry is where the language is renewed.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Poetry is an ongoing conversation with the past and the future and the present. I'm interested in that continuity, in that way of tying civilization together. It's like shoe laces, it holds things together.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to read it in the right rhythm.

Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation