Quotes by Poetry Is To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary. Edgar Allan Poe poetry-is soul Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words. Eddie Izzard notes music poetry-is Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. Elia Kazan realistic acting poetry-is I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark. Erica Jong ecstasy poetry-is dark My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric. Ernesto Cardenal epigrams poetry-is periods Poetry is fired by love. Erica Jong poetry-is Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials. Ezra Pound essentials language poetry-is The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved. Faiz Ahmad Faiz beloved poetry-is loss Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you F. Scott Fitzgerald poetry-is poetry fire Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe. Frederic Tuten poetry-is said way Prose is walking; poetry is flying Galway Kinnell prose flying poetry-is Poetry is talking on tiptoe. George Meredith tiptoes poetry-is talking He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. George Orwell abyss poetry-is mind Poetry is a dangerous gift. Grace Aguilar dangerous poetry-is poetry I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry. Graciela Iturbide love-poetry poetry-is Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth. Gunter Brus poetry-is The poetry is myself. Gwendolyn Brooks poetry-is Poetry is life distilled. Gwendolyn Brooks poetry-is poetry life Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. Gustave Flaubert geometry precise poetry-is Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. Gustave Flaubert geometry subjects poetry-is «12345678910»