Poetry Quotes - Page 19

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.

Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.

Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.

Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.