Poetry is Quotes · Page 33

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

— Anna Kamienska

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

— Valerie Worth

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional…

— Ezra Pound

You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what…

— Robert Frost

Poetry is frosted fire.

— J. Patrick Lewis

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom…

— Hunter S. Thompson

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open,…

— Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

— Rory Sutherland

Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from…

— Sarah Kay

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is…

— Kim Hyesoon

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

— Margaret Atwood

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is…

— Robert Hayden

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this…

— Aristotle

One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to…

— Valerie Worth

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

— Joan Miro

A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

— Ezra Pound

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

— William C. Bryant

poetry is where the language is renewed.

— Margaret Atwood

Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly…

— Charles Bukowski

In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the…

— Forrest Gander

Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the…

— Dan Simmons