Poetry Is Quotes - Page 36

• Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Vision, Glimpse, World

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• I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

  Mark Haddon

  Giving, Wrapping

  "Finding the vital spark". Interview With Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2005.

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• Poetry is a mug's game.

  T. S. Eliot

  Games, Poetry, Mug

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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• A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

  W. H. Auden

  Music, Art, Thinking

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• Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Writing

  Elizabeth S. Sergeant Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) ch. 18

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• If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Food, Writing, Ifs

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

  Plutarch

  Art, Poetry, Greek

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• 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

  Relationship, Language And Power, Concentration

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Dream, Flower, Wheat

  "The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1959.

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• Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

  Anne Sexton

  Hands, Kitchen, Faces

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• Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

  Adrienne Rich

  Writing, Voice, Stones

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

  Audre Lorde

  Dream, Names, Ideas

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.37, Crossing Press

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• Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sound, Vomiting, Caught

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Wings, Trying, Apollo

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1951). “Speak, Memory: A Memoir”

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• Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

  Joan Miro

  Art, Wind, Making Love

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• Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Science, Ladders

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• Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a better world, a better society, better literature, better poetry, better paintings, better sculpture, better human beings.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Men, Creative

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• When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Art, Creativity

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• Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry is basically illogical. Prose has to be clear-cut; poetry has to be vague - that's its beauty, its quality. Prose simply says what it says; poetry says many things. Prose is needed in the day-to-day world, in the marketplace. But whenever something of the heart has to be said, prose is always found inadequate - one has to fall back to poetry.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Heart, Cutting

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• Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

  Dennis Gabor

  Appreciate, Magic, Kind

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• Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

  Vicente Aleixandre

  Poetic, Poet, Succession

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• No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Criticism, Analysis, Adequate

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “The journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

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• That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

  Judith Wright

  Love, Art, Thinking

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• Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Poetry, Indispensable

  "The Necessity of Art". Book by Ernst Fischer, 1959.

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

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Essence, Needs

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