Poetry Quotes - Page 3

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian Question and no Indian Department.