Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. Use this quote
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. Use this quote
I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it. Use this quote
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. Use this quote
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. Use this quote
It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first. Use this quote
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. Use this quote
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. Use this quote
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. Use this quote
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. Use this quote
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. Use this quote
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. Use this quote
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. Use this quote
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ. Use this quote
The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. Use this quote
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. Use this quote
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. Use this quote
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so. Use this quote
