Poetry Is Quotes - Page 16

• Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

  Gunter Brus

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Günter Brus, Monika Faber, Actar, 2005.

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• The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Demand, Absurd

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• 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.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Emotional, Ability, Good Poetry

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• Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

  Sonia Orwell

  Poetry, Mind, Painting

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• Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

  Steve Earle

  Writing, Want, Hardest

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• Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Teaching, Character

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)”, p.98, Kshetra Books

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• The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Men, Taught

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• If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

  Helen Vendler

  Pages, Way, Precision

  "Helen Vendler: Poetry Critic and Fan of Art History". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. November 17, 2012.

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• My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard."

  Ruby Dee

  Mother, Writing, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

  A. E. Housman

  Religious, Appreciated

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• Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry
   because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

  Valerie Worth

  Mud, Puddles, Way

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• The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.

  Thomas Lux

  Annoyed, Titles, Occasional

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• 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.

  Laura Riding

  Memories, Giving, Mind

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• Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Anxiety, Technique, Happens

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• The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

  Roman Jakobson

  Art, Poetry, Function

  Roman Jakobson (1967). “To honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, 11 October 1966”

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• The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Writing, Poetry

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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• The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay ... More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, Destiny, Race

  Matthew Arnold (1961). “Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold”, Houghton Mifflin College Division

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• Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Poetry, Way

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.106, Penguin UK

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• The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Poetry, Pigment

  Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

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• Poetry is language in orbit.

  Seamus Heaney

  Art, Poetry, Orbit

  Seamus Heaney (2010). “Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001”, p.366, Faber & Faber

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• Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Art, Echoes, Poetry

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• Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

  John Stuart Mill

  Art, Poetry, Heard

  John Stuart Mill (1969). “Autobiography, and Other Writings”

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• Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Poetry, Desire

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• Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

  Jean Genet

  Art, Point Break, Poetry

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.125, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

  Leonard Cohen

  Art, Poetry, Intention

  "A Visit With Leonard Cohen: Poetry, Britney Spears and More With a Master" by Mark Binelli, www.rollingstone.com. November 16, 2016.

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