The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Money is a kind of poetry.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories – these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
I’m fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there’s a lot of poetry in it. There’s a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you’d better listen to it pretty carefully, ‘cause it’s important.
When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn’t worth reading.
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I’d be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
