I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. Use this quote
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. Use this quote
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. Use this quote
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. Use this quote
Wine is bottled poetry. Use this quote
Every single soul is a poem. 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
I think poetry is best read to oneself. Use this quote
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. Use this quote
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. Use this quote
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world. Use this quote
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry. Use this quote
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. Use this quote
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Use this quote
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. Use this quote
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. Use this quote
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. Use this quote
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. Use this quote
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. 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
