Quotes by Poetry Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought. Dana Gioia understanding poetry art Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins. Dana Gioia apology poetry art Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. Dave Beard poetry mind men Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow. David Crosby poetry song long In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one. David Daiches bars poetry use Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen, prettiest girl that I ever seen. See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean. David Essex girl poetry baby One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit "God eternally geometrizes." David Eugene Smith poetry truth religious The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. David Hare prose century poetry Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. David Hare poetry nature keys The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions. David Hume passion poetry heart The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art". David Shields poetry reality art And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, Delmore Schwartz toads poetry morning Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. Denis Diderot barbaric poetry-is poetry Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions. Denise Levertov poetry attitude moving We have the words in our pockets, Denise Levertov poetry light taken Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. Dennis Gabor poetic poetry heart If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average. Derek Walcott poetry writing average Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another. Diane Glancy emotional poetry jobs Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time. Diane Glancy poetry together long Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem. Diane Glancy vision insane poetry «345678910111213»