Poetry Is Quotes - Page 14

• A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Poetry, Criticism, Tailors

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• German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.

  Paul Celan

  Beauty, Truth, Poetry

  Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.15, Psychology Press

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• [My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.

  Robert Hayden

  Reality, Discovery, Definitions

  Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.27, University of Michigan Press

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• Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

  Barbara Feldon

  Numbers, Needs, Compression

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.

  Hetty King

  Memories, People, Acting

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• Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and take longer than you'd like (it may even be painful), but other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected. But either way - it is important, and it feels so much better when it's done.

  Sarah Kay

  Important, Done, May

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• Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Determination, Men, Wind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

  Robert Pinsky

  Breathing, Vision, Cadence

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• The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Ideas, Guessing

  "The Victorian Age in Literature". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies, p. 24, 1913.

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• Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

  Jose Marti

  People, Inspire, Bards

  "Poesia". Essay by Jose Marti, 1891.

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• My poems are like a dagger
  Sprouting flowers from the hilt;
  My poetry is like a fountain
  Sprinkling streams of coral water.

  Jose Marti

  Flower, Water, Daggers

  "Simple Verses". Book by Jose Marti, 1891.

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• Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

  Sonia Orwell

  Poetry, Mind, Painting

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• My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard."

  Ruby Dee

  Mother, Writing, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

  Helen Vendler

  Pages, Way, Precision

  "Helen Vendler: Poetry Critic and Fan of Art History". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. November 17, 2012.

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• Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry
   because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

  Valerie Worth

  Mud, Puddles, Way

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• The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Men, Taught

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• Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Emotional, Ability, Good Poetry

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• The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

  Roman Jakobson

  Art, Poetry, Function

  Roman Jakobson (1967). “To honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, 11 October 1966”

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• Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

  John Stuart Mill

  Art, Poetry, Heard

  John Stuart Mill (1969). “Autobiography, and Other Writings”

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• Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Poetry, Way

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.106, Penguin UK

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• So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

  e. e. cummings

  Wisdom, Art, Responsibility

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• Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

  Brendan Kennelly

  Democracy, Ultimate

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• Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

  Alice Notley

  Writing, Writing Poetry, Knows

  "A Quick Interview With Alice Notley". Interview with Corey Zeller, ampersandreview.com. May 11, 2014.

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• Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

  Tom Holt

  Funny, Childhood, Nasty

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• Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space between, outside representation but in the 'presence' of it, we are provoked to laugh. Bernstein alters our language to open a double range that's public and mind at once and inseparable, that is 'Poetry is patterned thought in search of unpatterned mind.' Girly Man is doing it.

  Leslie Scalapino

  Girly, Men, Opposites

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