Poetry Is Quotes - Page 39

• Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Different, Firsts, Provocative

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• Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss a form and dimension so that it might be loss and not simply a hopeless haunting. It can do these things for one person, or it can do them for an entire culture. But poetry is for psychological, spiritual, or emotional pain. For physical pain it is, like everything but drugs, useless.

  Christian Wiman

  Spiritual, Pain, Loss

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• He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

  Subramanya Bharathi

  Writing, Poet, Made

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• Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  Book, Passion, Past

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• For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

  Edward Dowden

  Littles, Cynicism, Poet

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• Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

  Aileen Fisher

  Writing, Feelings, Pieces

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• Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

  Laurence Overmire

  Art, Poetry, Language

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• Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

  Samuel Palmer

  Cities, Pleasure

  Palmer, Samuel (1985). “The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer”, Manchester : Carcanet with MidNAG

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• Poetry is a necessity of life.

  C.D. Wright

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.4, Copper Canyon Press

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• Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Art, Excellence, Chiefs

  EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.156

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• I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Blood, Hands

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• Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

  Joseph Joubert

  Found

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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

  William Wordsworth

  Expression, Spirit, Countenance

  'Lyrical Ballads' (2nd ed., 1802) preface

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• Poetry is music written for the human voice.

  Maya Angelou

  Voice, Poetry, Humans

  1989 In' The Power of the Word', Public Broadcasting Service,15 Sep.

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• Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Adventure, Creative

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners compare performance with text and with other performances. Good poets use the full resources of language.

  Christopher Logue

  Art, Giving, Use

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• When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Philosophy, Reality, Men

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• Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.

  Dorothea Lasky

  Real, Party, Home

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• Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

  R. S. Thomas

  Heart, Way, Intellect

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

  Peter Porter

  Language, Lit

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• 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

  Rocks, Names, Giving

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

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• Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

  Antonin Artaud

  Beautiful, Reading, May

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.78, Grove Press

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

  Jennifer Grotz

  Philosophy, Makeup

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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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