Famous Quotes About poetry

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.