- The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
- Reynolds Price on Poetry
- The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
- Allen Ginsberg on Poetry
- The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
- Paul Muldoon on Poetry
- The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
- Robert Penn Warren on Poetry
- The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
- Richard Rosen on Poetry
- The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
- Jean Cocteau on Poetry
- The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
- A. R. Ammons on Poetry
- The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau on Poetry
- The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
- Lionel Trilling on Poetry
- The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.
- Graham Joyce on Poetry
- The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
- George Murray on Poetry
- The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
- David Hare on Poetry
- The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
- Margaret Walker on Poetry
- 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.
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine on Poetry
- The poetry of the earth is never dead.
- John Keats on Poetry
- The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry
- The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
- The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Poetry
- The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
- James Broughton on Poetry
- 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.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
- The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
- Laura Marling on Poetry
- The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
- Raoul Vaneigem on Poetry
- The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
- E. M. Forster on Poetry
- The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
- Muriel Rukeyser on Poetry
- The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
- Lafcadio Hearn on Poetry
- The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
- Ryszard Kapuscinski on Poetry
- The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
- Louis Kronenberger on Poetry
- The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
- Bertrand Russell on Poetry
- The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
- Robert Penn Warren on Poetry
- 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.
- Mike Leigh on Poetry
- The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
- James Gates Percival on Poetry
- The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
- Vanessa Redgrave on Poetry
- Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
- Julie Taymor on Poetry
- Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
- George Murray on Poetry
- There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
- Helen Thomas on Poetry
- There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
- Jean De La Bruyere on Poetry
- There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
- There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
- Henry R. Luce on Poetry
- There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
- There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
- Gyorgy Ligeti on Poetry
- 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.
- Eugenio Montale on Poetry
- There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
- There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
- Anna Quindlen on Poetry
- There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
- Emily Dickinson on Poetry
- There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
- Hamlin Garland on Poetry
- There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
- Lafcadio Hearn on Poetry
- There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
- There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
- Eugenio Montale on Poetry
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