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.
Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.
If I'm excited by something bodily, and curious about it, I generally want to delve into it and explore it with poetry. That's the way I ordinarily watch the world around me.
Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.
There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.
Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.
Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.
Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.
I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.
Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.
Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.
The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.
Reality, the oppressor's tongue.