Quotes about Good Poetry

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry. Votes: 4

My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything. Votes: 2

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid Votes: 2

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry. Votes: 2

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. Votes: 2

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. Votes: 2

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. Votes: 2

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop. Votes: 2

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves Votes: 2

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well. Votes: 2

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it. Votes: 2

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. Votes: 2

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write. Votes: 2

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where. Votes: 2

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet. Votes: 2

In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry. Votes: 2

Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies. Votes: 2

Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative. Votes: 2

When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror. Votes: 2

I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually frees us from prejudice, no matter what religion or political persuasion they are. I try to create a river-like discourse. The river is not political, it's not on your side or against you. It's an invitation into the onward flow. Votes: 2

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. Votes: 0

Poetry is good for unleashing images. Votes: 0

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope. Votes: 0

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us. Votes: 0

Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy. Votes: 0

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry. Votes: 0

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry Votes: 0

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. Votes: 0

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look. Votes: 0

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry. Votes: 0

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life. Votes: 0

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! Votes: 0

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. Votes: 0

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. Votes: 0

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. Votes: 0

Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. Votes: 0

Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for? Votes: 0

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. Votes: 0

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. Votes: 0

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout. Votes: 0

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. Votes: 0

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. Votes: 0

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. Votes: 0

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. Votes: 0

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower Votes: 0

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart. Votes: 0

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. Votes: 0

I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline. Votes: 0

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger. Votes: 0

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view. Votes: 0

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. Votes: 0

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. Votes: 0

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal Votes: 0

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. Votes: 0

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways. Votes: 0

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. Votes: 0

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out. Votes: 0

He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme. Votes: 0

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat. Votes: 0

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. Votes: 0

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad. Votes: 0

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good. Votes: 0

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. Votes: 0

There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable, Eliot's kind of deplorable. Votes: 0

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. Votes: 0

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it. Votes: 0

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. Votes: 0

There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry. Votes: 0

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best. Votes: 0

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. Votes: 0

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers. Votes: 0

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it. Votes: 0

If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi's poetry is really remarkable. Votes: 0

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst. Votes: 0

In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories. Votes: 0

Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others. Votes: 0

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life. Votes: 0