Famous Quotes About poetry

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.