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Poetry Quotes

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night Picture Quote #1

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away Picture Quote #1

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same Picture Quote #1

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic Picture Quote #1

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love Picture Quote #1

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It’s not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It’s like learning to like asparagus Picture Quote #1

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Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose Picture Quote #1

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means Picture Quote #1

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality Picture Quote #1

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly Picture Quote #1

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts Picture Quote #1

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry Picture Quote #1

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Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow August and infinity have a form Picture Quote #1

Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished Picture Quote #1

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music Picture Quote #1

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness Picture Quote #1

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can’t be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool Picture Quote #1

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love Picture Quote #1

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An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive Picture Quote #1

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet Picture Quote #1

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker’s background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history Picture Quote #1

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made Picture Quote #1

He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech Picture Quote #1

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it’s harder to write. It’s harder to keep the respect of the reader too Picture Quote #1

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I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I’m yet to pen a script, but it is something that I’ve been telling myself I want to do Picture Quote #1

I don’t like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country Picture Quote #1

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting Picture Quote #1

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry Picture Quote #1

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn’t seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago Picture Quote #1

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and. I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work Picture Quote #1

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We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night (Poetry Quotes) The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away (Poetry Quotes) History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same (Poetry Quotes) We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic (Poetry Quotes) Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love (Poetry Quotes) For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It’s not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It’s like learning to like asparagus (Poetry Quotes) Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose (Poetry Quotes) Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means (Poetry Quotes) So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality (Poetry Quotes) We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly (Poetry Quotes) Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts (Poetry Quotes) If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry (Poetry Quotes) Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow August and infinity have a form (Poetry Quotes) Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished (Poetry Quotes) The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music (Poetry Quotes) My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness (Poetry Quotes) Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can’t be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool (Poetry Quotes) In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love (Poetry Quotes) An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive (Poetry Quotes) And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet (Poetry Quotes) But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker’s background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history (Poetry Quotes) By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made (Poetry Quotes) He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech (Poetry Quotes) Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it’s harder to write. It’s harder to keep the respect of the reader too (Poetry Quotes) I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I’m yet to pen a script, but it is something that I’ve been telling myself I want to do (Poetry Quotes) I don’t like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country (Poetry Quotes) I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting (Poetry Quotes) I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry (Poetry Quotes) I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn’t seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago (Poetry Quotes) I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and. I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work (Poetry Quotes)

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