Poetry Quotes - Page 32

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

Poets are born, not paid.

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.

my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!

Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.