Famous Quotes: Poetry

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.
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I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.
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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
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I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
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Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
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My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
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As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
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