Poetry Is Quotes - Page 23

• Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged

  John Maynard Keynes

  Employment, Logic, Lyrical

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography”

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• For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Flower, Blood, Tree

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• Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Poetry, Sculpture, Painting

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.149

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• The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.

  Matthew Arnold

  School, Differences, Soul

  Essays in Criticism Second Series, "Thomas Gray" (1888)

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• Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

  Austin O'Malley

  Photography, Color, Oil

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• Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Fighting, Hands, Caress

  1972 'Poetry Lives', in the Sunday Times,13 Feb.

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• Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.

  Campbell McGrath

  Land, Perfect, Use

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• Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

  Campbell McGrath

  Art, Other Cultures, Ends

  "Campbell McGrath on Poetry, Walt Whitman and Schaefer Beer". Interview with Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. March 1, 2008.

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• We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

  Allison Mackie

  Ideas, Poetry, Gathering

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• What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

  Marianne Moore

  Writing, Categories

  Interview with Donald Hall, pub.'Paris Review' The Art of Poetry, no 26 (1961), 1960.

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• Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Ideas, Space

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1998). “Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art”, p.89, Oxford University Press

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• The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Poetry, Elements, Saturn

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Kavanagh. Driftwood”, p.365

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• Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking, America, Progress

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.794, Library of America

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• Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

  William Carlos Williams

  Perfect, Machines, May

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ?

  Randall Jarrell

  Past, Wish, Transition

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "A Note on Poetry" (p. 48), 1980.

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• Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

  Eddie Izzard

  Music, Notes

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• Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

  John Gabriel Stedman

  Art, Poetry, Excellence

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• Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

  Eileen Myles

  Opportunity, Giving, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Discrimination, Breaking Down, Mainstream

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is outside of the poetry world, namely the language that is not the language of poetry, cannot go into the poetry world.

  Kim Hyesoon

  World, Language, Boundaries

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Thinking, Language, Motherly

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  Robert Frost

  Love Is, Desire, Delight

  "The Figure a Poem Makes". Essay by Robert Frost, 1939.

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• Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

  Richard Eberhart

  Country, Energy, Natural

  Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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• The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.

  Robert Pinsky

  Air, Voice, Sound

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• On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Book, Levels, Might

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