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.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?
Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.
Romance is the poetry of literature.
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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. "
The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.
Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any of those things except with the added definition of intensified formal pressure.
One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides it much, much more. Fiction doesn't necessarily reveal what it's doing with rhythm and sound and patterning.
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.