Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain"… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its… — Dennis Gabor Copy Share Image
Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse -… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it.… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
