Poetry Is Quotes - Page 14

• Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Angel, Sacrifice, Fire

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1891). “Autobiographical and political”

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• Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Education, School, Poetry

  Nikki Giovanni (1992). “Conversations with Nikki Giovanni”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Boston, Pie, Pumpkin

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1859). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1”, p.36

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• Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cutting, Light, Poetry

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• What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.

  June Jordan

  Powerful, Mean, Poetry

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• Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Poetry, Existence

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.315

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• Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

  Washington Irving

  Poetry, Complaints, Contagious

  Washington Irving (1860). “The Works of Washington Irving: Tales of a traveller”, p.158

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• poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Heart, Poetry, Way

  Marjorie Holmes (1991). “Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes Deluxe Jacketed Edition”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

  May Sarton

  School, Essentials, Way

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• poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Way, Firsts

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• Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.

  May Sarton

  Feelings, Balance, Shifting

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• For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.

  May Sarton

  Believe, Feelings, Analysis

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• One of the springs of poetry is joy.

  May Sarton

  Spring, Joy

  May Sarton (2015). “Writings on Writing”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

  John Sterling

  Poetry, Joy, Magic

  John Sterling (1848). “Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge”, p.168

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• Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.

  Wallace Stevens

  Poetry, Achieve, Music Is

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.318, Vintage

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• The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

  William Cowper

  Art, Passion, Poetry

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• My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me.

  Lucy Larcom

  Poetry, Atmosphere, May

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

  Amy Lowell

  Powerful, Poetry, Literature

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.79, Ardent Media

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• Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

  Diane Ackerman

  Past, Poetry, Telescopes

  Diane Ackerman (1999). “Deep Play”, Random House Incorporated

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• Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

  Heinrich Heine

  Song, Spring, Poetry

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.

  Erica Jong

  Hurt, Loss, Gains

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• I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

  Erica Jong

  Dark, Ecstasy, Direct

  Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

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• Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

  Erica Jong

  Culture, World, Way

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.97, Penguin

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• Poetry is fired by love.

  Erica Jong

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• My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Names, Poetry, Diaries

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