Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Poetry is basically built out of what I think of as being a fairly political act at its core: "I'm not going… — Ted Genoways Copy Share Image
I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait.… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view. — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Poetry is poetry. My process is I try to write the best poem I can, in the best way to communicate whatever… — Bao Phi Copy Share Image
Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
When these idiot rightwingers start complaining about poetry being political, I'm fond of reciting Sappho to them, who excluded men from her… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
