Meditation Quote by Reginald Horace Blyth

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I…

— Luis Gonzalez

Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any sort. The…

— Anne Bancroft

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed…

— Matthew Arnold

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

— Marvin Bell

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the…

— Mark Strand

I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable…

— Edward Hirsch

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

— Marie Corelli

Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

— Ernesto Cardenal

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

— Joyce Carol Oates

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

— Robert Graves

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens…

— Robert Morgan