Poetry Quotes - Page 10

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

Poetry's object is truth.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

What can be explained is not poetry.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

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

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Language is fossil Poetry.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.