Quotes and Sayings About Poetry Is

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
-- A. E. Housman

#Religious #Appreciated #Poetry Is

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Darkness #Poetry Is #Stills

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
-- Adrian Mitchell

Source : Poems (1964) p. 8

#People #Poetry #Poetry Is

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.
-- Alan Watts

#Art #Said #Poetry Is

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
-- Alice Notley

#Writing #Poetry Is #Writing Poetry

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
-- Amiri Baraka

#Musical #Emphasis #Poetry Is

(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.
-- Andreï Makine

#Rivals #Slave #Poetry Is

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
-- Andrei Voznesensky

#Believe #Poetry Is

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.
-- Anna Kamienska

#Poetry Is

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
-- Arnold Bennett

#Enemy #Friends And Enemies #Poetry Is

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
-- Audre Lorde

#Luxury #Existence #Poetry Is

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.
-- Augusta Jane Evans

#Insanity #Form #Poetry Is

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
-- Babette Deutsch

#Age #Genius #Poetry Is

...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...
-- Billy Collins

#Writing #Trouble #Poetry Is

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.
-- Brendan Kennelly

#Democracy #Poetry Is #Ultimate

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
-- Brooks Atkinson

#Thinking #Poetry Is

Poetry is a necessity of life,
-- C.D. Wright

#Poetry Is

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
-- C.D. Wright

#Poetry Is

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
-- Carl Sandburg

#Poetry #Literature #Poetry Is

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
-- Carl Sandburg

#Poetry Is #Barriers

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Poetry Is

Poetry is an orphan of silence.
-- Charles Simic

#Silence #Orphan #Poetry Is

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...
-- Czeslaw Milosz

#Purpose #Difficult #Poetry Is

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
-- David Biespiel

#Long #Mess #Poetry Is

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.
-- David Biespiel

#Art #Relation #Poetry Is

Poetry is a break for freedom.
-- David Whyte

#Break #Poetry Is

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
-- Dennis Gabor

#Heart #Poetry #Poetry Is

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.
-- Diane Wakoski

#Art #Mean #Poetry Is

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.
-- Eavan Boland

#Shadow #Language #Poetry Is

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
-- Edgar Allan Poe

#Soul #Poetry Is