Poetry is Quotes · Page 15

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and…

— Henry Purcell

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to…

— Ellen Bass

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

— Robin Williams

Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan…

— Rollo May

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't…

— Kenneth Koch

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

— Robert Bly

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury…

— Stella Benson

When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics…

— Marcus Mumford

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

— George Orwell

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

— Alice Notley

Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which…

— John Banville

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

— Paul Valery

I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

— Octavio Paz

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history…

— Robert Penn Warren

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Poetry is not a luxury.

— Audre Lorde

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

— John Donne

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

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

— Robert Fitzgerald

Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.

— Jennifer Rosen

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For…

— Herbert Read

I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even…

— Sarah Kay

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

— Robinson Jeffers

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

— Eddie Izzard