Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. Use this quote
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. Use this quote
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. Use this quote
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. Use this quote
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. Use this quote
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? Use this quote
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. Use this quote
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. Use this quote
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were. Use this quote
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry. Use this quote
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. Use this quote
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. Use this quote
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. Use this quote
Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. Use this quote
Eloquence is the poetry of prose. Use this quote
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. Use this quote
