Famous Quotes About poetry

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.