Poetry Quotes - Page 14

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.