Poetry Quotes - Page 11

In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Poetry is mostly hunches.

The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.

Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

A poem should not mean but be.

Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.