What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
I think of myself as an ambassador of the arts. In my heart of hearts, I know the world would be a more peaceful, tender place if we were more moved by the poetry around us.
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.
My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought.
I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
