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Poetry Quotes

I don’t want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you’re so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you Picture Quote #1

Don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions Picture Quote #1

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom Picture Quote #1

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy Picture Quote #1

Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations Picture Quote #1

You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past Picture Quote #1

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Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product’s something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody Picture Quote #1

One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break Picture Quote #1

Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships Picture Quote #1

If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy Picture Quote #1

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication Picture Quote #1

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I believe that only poetry counts... A great novelist is first of all a great poet Picture Quote #1

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction Picture Quote #1

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too Picture Quote #1

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential Picture Quote #1

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose Picture Quote #1

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it Picture Quote #1

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The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space Picture Quote #1

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen Picture Quote #1

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire Picture Quote #1

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds Picture Quote #1

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon Picture Quote #1

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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared Picture Quote #1

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own Picture Quote #1

In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes Picture Quote #1

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms Picture Quote #1

Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies Picture Quote #1

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business Picture Quote #1

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I don’t want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you’re so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you (Poetry Quotes) Don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions (Poetry Quotes) The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy (Poetry Quotes) Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations (Poetry Quotes) You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past (Poetry Quotes) Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product’s something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody (Poetry Quotes) One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break (Poetry Quotes) Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships (Poetry Quotes) If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy (Poetry Quotes) The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication (Poetry Quotes) I believe that only poetry counts... A great novelist is first of all a great poet (Poetry Quotes) I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too (Poetry Quotes) I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential (Poetry Quotes) Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose (Poetry Quotes) And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it (Poetry Quotes) The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen (Poetry Quotes) At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire (Poetry Quotes) Poetry must find ways of breaking distance... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds (Poetry Quotes) By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon (Poetry Quotes) Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own (Poetry Quotes) In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes (Poetry Quotes) Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms (Poetry Quotes) Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies (Poetry Quotes) Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business (Poetry Quotes)

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