Arts, Media & Entertainment: Poetry Quotes

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"I want people to bow as they see me and say: he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

Allen Ginsberg

"I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition"

Paul Dirac, Physicist

Paul Dirac

"Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone"

Erica Jong, Novelist

Erica Jong

"If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

Paul Tillich

"A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

Ludwig van Beethoven

"Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets"

Federico Fellini, Director

Federico Fellini

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"I could, I trust, starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... Poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life"

George Sand, Novelist

George Sand

"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Moonlight is sculpture"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

Derek Walcott

"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

Derek Walcott

"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

Derek Walcott

"The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"The poet is the priest of the invisible"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"A poem need not have a meaning, and, like most things in nature, often does not have"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread"

Pablo Neruda, Writer

Pablo Neruda

"In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep"

Patti Smith, Musician

"The fire burns as the novel taught it how"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

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