Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
There’s a reason poets often say, ‘Poetry saved my life,’ for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul’s suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
It’s bad poetry executed by people that can’t sing. That’s my definition of Rap.
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
America’s liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
Cotton was a force of nature. There’s a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and another on my back that says ‘The Road Not Taken,’ which is a poem by Robert Frost.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
I went to what can only be described as a slum school in Salford – rough and full of trainee punks – but I was very lucky in that I had one inspiring teacher, John Malone, who gave the whole class an interest in romantic poetry.
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.
Well, I like to write poetry. I’m a published poet.
Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been interested in the poetry of melancholy, if you like.
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
