Poetry Quotes - Page 5

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.

Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.

But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.