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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it  (What Poetry Is Quotes) Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do  (What Poetry Is Quotes) Poetry is what gets lost in translation  (What Poetry Is Quotes) What can be explained is not poetry  (What Poetry Is Quotes) But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for  (What Poetry Is Quotes) I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!  (What Poetry Is Quotes) The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry  (What Poetry Is Quotes) What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?  (What Poetry Is Quotes) What’s poetry? It’s not real but maybe it’s more than real. It’s dreaming while you’re awake.  (What Poetry Is Quotes) Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech Â- a slightly elevated and concentrated form.  (What Poetry Is Quotes) Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?  (What Poetry Is Quotes) Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken  (What Poetry Is Quotes) What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it  (What Poetry Is Quotes) What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions  (What Poetry Is Quotes) Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry  (What Poetry Is Quotes) But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me  (What Poetry Is Quotes) What is poetry which does not save nations or people?  (What Poetry Is Quotes) Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets  (What Poetry Is Quotes) What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion  (What Poetry Is Quotes) Poetry calls into question what it means to be human  (What Poetry Is Quotes) A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named  (What Poetry Is Quotes) On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?  (What Poetry Is Quotes) Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!  (What Poetry Is Quotes) Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?  (What Poetry Is Quotes) What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive  (What Poetry Is Quotes) What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?  (What Poetry Is Quotes) ... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?  (What Poetry Is Quotes) Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don’t care; that’s what poetry is supposed to do  (What Poetry Is Quotes)