Poetry Quotes - page 90

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges. View quote
Robert Pinsky
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art. View quote
Robert Pinsky
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities. View quote
Robert Pinsky
I speak it to our shame; the cause no grand Poets adorn our country, is the small Encouragement to such: for how can he esteem, that understands not poetry? View quote
Luís de Camões
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship may be called throughout prosaic and modern. The Romantic sinks to ruin, the Poesy of Nature, the Wonderful. The Book treats merely of common worldly things: Nature and Mysticism are altogether forgotten. It is a poetised civic and household History; the Marvellous is expressly treated therein as imagination and enthusiasm. Artistic Atheism is the spirit of the Book. ... It is properly a Candide, directed against Poetry: the Book is highly unpoetical in respect of spirit, poetical as the dress and body of it are. View quote
Novalis
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. It appeals to the imagination from the start: those colours, green and yellow, create an atmosphere. View quote
J. Milton Hayes
Poetry is what looks like poetry, what sounds like poetry. It is metrical composition. View quote
J. V. Cunningham
The Second Amendment is about protecting your right to go deer hunting the same way that the First Amendment is about protecting your right to publish poetry. View quote
James Wesley Rawles
I've spent a lot of time in London over the last few years and I liked the idea of the Mughal emperor Babur meeting with modern-day disaffected youth and talking to them about their actions. He was a sharp literary critic who could be very sweeping and cruel about poetry if he thought it was bad poetry, and he said some fantastic things that I quoted word for word in the opera. I read the Baburnama – the memoirs of Babur – and quoted lines from it. "Writing badly will make you ill.” What a beautiful thing to say. I read that book and I thought, how dramatic! If he had been a figure in western history it would have been an opera. War, murder, love, tragedy, poetry. It always jumped out at me as something worth doing. View quote
Jeet Thayil
Poetry is like painting one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. (Horace)
Look at why Jesus strictly avoided speaking the language of the theologians of his day. It's plain to see what an enormous liberation there lies in hearing something about God in the words of poetry. Imagine that we would speak about God in the music of Mozart and Beethoven or in the pictures of van Gogh... It would be impossible to fight wars over the true faith in the Name of Mozart or van Gogh... The language of poetry, the parables of Jesus, is international. You can't and mustn't pour them into dogmas. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? View quote
Jay-Z
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. View quote
June Jordan
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. View quote
June Jordan
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. View quote
June Jordan
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
I try to root the language of my poetry in kindness, forgiveness, compassion and curiosity, that is the way I want to live, but of course that's not to say anger and resentment and envy and other difficult emotions don't make a noise in my work... View quote
Raymond Antrobus
I can say poetry has certainly sharpened my senses and keeps me open to wonder about alternative realities, to be overly curious rather than overly ideological, it can be read as just a reminder that we have more senses than we have the words for, so perhaps we ought to revel in that if we are to truly live our lives in the light? (Raymond Antrobus)
Spoken Word poetry is an art form that fits me well because it enables me to bring all the layers of who I am into one space - A reader, writer, and performer... View quote
Raymond Antrobus
Poetry has always been at the margins, and I think that because of its sidelining, this has been a part of its appeal... View quote
Raymond Antrobus
Philosophy resembles poetry in being an art for enforcing meditation, for driving the mind inwards until it sinks into its Object. View quote
L. P. Jacks
I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive. View quote
Anthony Hopkins