Poetry quotes

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of 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.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

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.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.