Poetry Quotes - Page 24

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

God is the perfect poet.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.

Poetry can magnify experience.

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.