Quotes about what is Poetry

What is poetry which does not save nations or people? Votes: 4

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. Votes: 4

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart? Votes: 4

Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is. Votes: 4

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.' Votes: 4

What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint. Votes: 4

The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: 'What is a sunrise for? What are caresses for? What is the smell of coffee for?' Votes: 4

There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me. Votes: 4

What can be explained is not poetry. Votes: 0

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Votes: 0

Poetry is what is gained in translation. Votes: 0

Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle. Votes: 0

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear. Votes: 0

I hate French poetry. What measured glitter! Votes: 0

Poetry surprises us with what we already know. Votes: 0

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. Votes: 0

No time for poetry but exactly what is. Votes: 0

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. Votes: 0

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for. Votes: 0

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. Votes: 0

Poetry calls into question what it means to be human Votes: 0

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing. Votes: 0

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique. Votes: 0

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry. Votes: 0

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. Votes: 0

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music. Votes: 0

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. Votes: 0

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. Votes: 0

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. Votes: 0

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? Votes: 0

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there. Votes: 0

poetry is when a natural melancholy what keep singing a melody Votes: 0

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind? Votes: 0

Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know. Votes: 0

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion. Votes: 0

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. Votes: 0

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. Votes: 0

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry Votes: 0

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive. Votes: 0

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us. Votes: 0

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Votes: 0

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it. Votes: 0

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Votes: 0

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! Votes: 0

Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. Votes: 0

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. Votes: 0

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. Votes: 0

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama. Votes: 0

I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read. Votes: 0

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it. Votes: 0

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. Votes: 0

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. Votes: 0

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be. Votes: 0

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way Votes: 0

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. Votes: 0

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. Votes: 0

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? Votes: 0

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? Votes: 0

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Votes: 0

Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. Votes: 0

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. Votes: 0

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world. Votes: 0

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible. Votes: 0

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. Votes: 0

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry. Votes: 0

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

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. Votes: 0

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake. Votes: 0

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it. Votes: 0

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out. Votes: 0

On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel? Votes: 0

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry? Votes: 0

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children? Votes: 0

My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry. Votes: 0

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn't "˜soothe.' Votes: 0

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. Votes: 0

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Votes: 0

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize Votes: 0

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. Votes: 0

Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse? Votes: 0

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? Votes: 0

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough~? Votes: 0

I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap. Votes: 0

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. Votes: 0

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. Votes: 0

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. Votes: 0

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry. Votes: 0

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

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. Votes: 0

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. Votes: 0

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. Votes: 0

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words. Votes: 0

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. Votes: 0

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form. Votes: 0

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. Votes: 0

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. Votes: 0

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills. Votes: 0

I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh? Votes: 0

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. Votes: 0

Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? Votes: 0

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs". Votes: 0

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. Votes: 0

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Votes: 0

I laugh when people say they don't like poetry. They listen to poetry every day, what do they think music is~? Votes: 0

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. Votes: 0

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read. Votes: 0

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. Votes: 0

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry. Votes: 0

They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it. Votes: 0

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness. Votes: 0

What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Votes: 0

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what's regular and what's wild. That has always appealed to me. Votes: 0

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. Votes: 0

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things? Votes: 0

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry. Votes: 0

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness. Votes: 0

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is? Votes: 0

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into. Votes: 0

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. Votes: 0

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. Votes: 0

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood? Que diran de mi poesia los que no tocaron mi sangre? Votes: 0

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Votes: 0

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters Votes: 0

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written. Votes: 0

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Votes: 0

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. Votes: 0

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man." Votes: 0

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. Votes: 0

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. Votes: 0

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. Votes: 0

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread? Votes: 0

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry Votes: 0

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable. Votes: 0

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. Votes: 0

the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived? 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

I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing. Votes: 0

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless. Votes: 0

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. Votes: 0

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it. Votes: 0

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure. Votes: 0

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry. Votes: 0

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry. Votes: 0

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry. Votes: 0

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard. Votes: 0

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur. Votes: 0

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it. Votes: 0

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves! Votes: 0

What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new? Votes: 0

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think Votes: 0

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. Votes: 0

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. Votes: 0

Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning of the poem is the poem. Votes: 0

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work. Votes: 0

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. Votes: 0

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart. Votes: 0

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me. Votes: 0

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other. Votes: 0

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth. Votes: 0

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do. Votes: 0

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. Votes: 0

Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?' Votes: 0

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. Votes: 0

Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your teacher taught you to do in school. Votes: 0

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. Votes: 0

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do. Votes: 0

What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things. Votes: 0