Poetry Quotes - Page 22

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Poetry is a necessity of life.

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

Poetry is not a luxury.

I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Poetry is a means of redemption.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.