I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.
To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.
Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.
Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.
Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme My barmie noddle's working prime.
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.
Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.