Poetry quotes

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.