Poetry Quotes · Page 144

“3 P’s are my soulmates: Pain, Prose and Poetry.”

— Vinita Kinra

“I see the life with your sight, O" the love; you're my light.”

— Debasish Mridha M.D

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

— Stanley Kunitz

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

— Seamus Heaney

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

— Stephane Mallarme

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

— Utah Phillips

Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.

— Gerhart Hauptmann

“It takes a strong man to be with a woman full of fire and stars and all of October.”

— Melody Lee

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

— Aristotle

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death...”

— John Keats

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

— Amy Lowell

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

— Philip Levine

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process…

— Robert Hayden

“We read every verse of Scripture lovingly and attentively, because every verse is a potential summons from God.”

— Richard J. Foster

“Beauty is so rare a th— Sing a new song Real Music A busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. A Visiting…

— Jack Spicer

contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for…

— Nick Hornby

“The poet called Miss Liberty's torch 'the lamp beside the golden door.' Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still…

— Ronald Regan

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced…

— Giles Andreae

I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote…

— Robert M Pirsig

“I'd just smashed someone's head in with a cast-iron skillet, and now this gorgeous, enigmatic man was speaking poetry to me. Finding…

— Natalie Bennett

In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough.…

— James Fenton

Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires…

— George Edward Woodberry

“Poetry flows from our hearts. It is like that mass of snow we call a glacier and when it starts its slow…

— Balroop Singh

“If you put the words on a page and you believe in them, then it’s a poem.”

— Ewuare Osayande

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“In this universe there are no time machines or keys that can turn hearts back around.”

— Sarah Tregay

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

— James Dickey

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

— Adrienne Rich

“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters”

— Tony Hoagland

“A mask you ask? Optional I find! Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I love the sufiana style of writing in Tagore's poetry.

— Gulzar

One thing I love about love is that it causes one to be a poet

— Markson Bero

“In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry.”

— Haruki Murakami

I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.

— Wendy C. Ortiz

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

— Peter J. Daniels

One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

— Mahmoud Darwish

“Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

— Seamus Heaney