I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. Use this quote
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. Use this quote
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. Use this quote
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. Use this quote
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. 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
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. Use this quote
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. Use this quote
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. Use this quote
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. Use this quote
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed. Use this quote
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. Use this quote
I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about. Use this quote
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. Use this quote
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. Use this quote
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. Use this quote
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. Use this quote
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. Use this quote
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. Use this quote
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. Use this quote
