Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. . . poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
It's like, symbolic language, the way that people approach dense poetry. . . it always bugs me, because that approach suggests that it's like a mystery novel, and that if you can put together the clues, you can come up with one singular answer.
Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.
[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.
I have been eating poetry.
Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is. ’
. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.
The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.
Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.