Famous Quotes: Poetry

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
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I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
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"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
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I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
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I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
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While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
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