- Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
- Franz Grillparzer on Poetry
- Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Poetry
- Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
- Theodore Sturgeon on Poetry
- Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
- Joseph Roux on Poetry
- Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
- Allen Tate on Poetry
- She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
- James Dickey on Poetry
- Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.
- Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
- John Masefield on Poetry
- Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
- Eugenio Montale on Poetry
- So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
- Nicholson Baker on Poetry
- So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
- Thomas Lynch on Poetry
- So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.
- Tracy K. Smith on Poetry
- So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
- Aaron Neville on Poetry
- So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
- June Jordan on Poetry
- Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
- Tomas Transtromer on Poetry
- Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
- Thomas Mann on Poetry
- Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
- Wislawa Szymborska on Poetry
- Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
- David Hunt on Poetry
- Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
- Virginia Woolf on Poetry
- Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.
- Georges Seurat on Poetry
- Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
- John Barton on Poetry
- Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
- Ani DiFranco on Poetry
- Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
- Adrian Mitchell on Poetry
- Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
- Elia Kazan on Poetry
- Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
- Walter Pater on Poetry
- Superstition is the poetry of life.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Poetry
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