Poetry Quotes - page 5

I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink. (Ernest Hemingway)
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. View quote
Galway Kinnell
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. View quote
Matthew Arnold
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. View quote
Lewis Thomas
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals. View quote
Philip Larkin
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Made poetry a mere mechanical art. View quote
William Cowper
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. View quote
Don Marquis
Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons. View quote
Alan Watts
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. View quote
T. S. Eliot
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing. View quote
William Faulkner
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. (Virginia Woolf)
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. View quote
Boris Pasternak
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. View quote
William Wordsworth
I read poetry to save time. View quote
Marilyn Monroe