Poetry Quotes - Page 15

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.