Poetry Quotes - Page 39

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry.poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

I love romantic poetry.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.

Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him.

The finest poetry was first experience.

The true poem is the poet's mind.

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.