Poetry Quotes - Page 38

Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.

There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.

The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse

Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.