Poetry Quotes - Page 4

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street.

I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.

Be with those who help your being.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane