Poetry Quotes - Page 21

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them.

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.