Category: Quotes About Poetry
Pablo Neruda Quotes About Poetry – 54070
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. -Pablo Neruda
Jorge Luis Borges Quotes About Poetry – 54146
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. -Jorge Luis Borges
Azar Nafisi Quotes About Poetry – 54444
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. -Azar Nafisi
Adrienne Rich Quotes About Poetry – 54256
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. -Adrienne Rich
Adrian Mitchell Quotes About Poetry – 54725
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. -Adrian Mitchell
Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes About Poetry – 54250
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
Wallace Stevens Quotes About Poetry – 54204
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. -Wallace Stevens
M. H. Abrams Quotes About Poetry – 53968
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. -M. H. Abrams
Elizabeth Edwards Quotes About Poetry – 54141
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. -Elizabeth Edwards
Judith Rodriguez Quotes About Poetry – 54778
I write poetry in order to live more fully. -Judith Rodriguez
Robert Adamson Quotes About Poetry – 54715
There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas. -Robert Adamson
Robert Staughton Lynd Quotes About Poetry – 54326
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. -Robert Staughton Lynd
Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes About Poetry – 54261
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. -Tahar Ben Jelloun
Mark Strand Quotes About Poetry – 54510
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. -Mark Strand
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Poetry – 53939
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes About Poetry – 54259
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. -Tahar Ben Jelloun
Victor Hugo Quotes About Poetry – 54026
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. -Victor Hugo
Wallace Stevens Quotes About Poetry – 53953
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. -Wallace Stevens
Stevie Smith Quotes About Poetry – 54734
I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican. -Stevie Smith