Poetry Is Quotes - Page 38

• The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

  Milan Kundera

  Purpose, Dazzle, Unbearable

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• Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.

  Dean Young

  Oddities, Lobster, Looks

  Dean Young (2010). “The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction”, Graywolf Press

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• Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Beauty, Taken, Simple

  Interview with Stephen Colbert at Montclair Kimberley Academy, January 29, 2010.

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• Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

  W. S. Merwin

  Art, World, Way

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• Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Imagination, Poetry, Feelings

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Chapter One: "The Fear of Poetry", p. 8, 1949.

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• Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

  Fleur Adcock

  Communication, Poetry, Way

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• Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Poetry, Heaven

  Time, New York, April 3, 1950.

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• The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Thinking, Office, Poetry

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses”, p.786

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• All poetry is misrepresentation.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Poetry, Misrepresentation

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Austin (1962). “Utilitarianism ; On Liberty ; Essay on Bentham: Together with Selected Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”

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• Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Expression, Imagination

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Large Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Poetry is itself a thing of God;
  He made his prophets poets; and the more
  We feel of poesie do we become
  Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

  Philip James Bailey

  Poetry, Prophet, Makers

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.10

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• If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Light, Sky

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.100, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

  Samuel Johnson

  Essence, Poetry, Delight

  Samuel Johnson (1819). “The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works”, p.201

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• Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

  Cesare Pavese

  Writing, Poetry, Making Love

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.51, Transaction Publishers

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• Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Poetry, Soul, Judgment

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• Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Communication, Science, Prose And Poetry

  "Definitions of Poetry" (1811)

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• Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the something that we see, but the seeing and the something are one; without the seeing there is no something, no something, no seeing. There is neither discovery nor creation: only the perfect, indivisible experience.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Nature, Discovery, Perfect

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• The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.

  Manmohan Acharya

  Flower, Garden, Rivers

  "Song of the Bumblebee". Book by Manmohan Acharya, 2008.

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• Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Two, Musical

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• All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

  Alfred Douglas

  Blood, Sweat, Tears

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• True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Science, Finals, Able

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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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