When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
