Famous Quotes About poetry

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.