Famous Quotes: Poetry

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
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Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.
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Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
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Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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Poetry and prayer are very similar.
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
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The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
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