Poetry Is Quotes

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Poetry is an act of peace.

Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Poetry is mostly hunches.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.