Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.
My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
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.
Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!
The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all.
Poetry is telling something to someone.
In the Augustan age. . . poetry was. . . the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature.
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.
I really love poetry. I'm a big E. E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.
Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence. " I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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. '
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. . . poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.