P Quotes
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“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.”
“Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.”
“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls. These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly on parchment.
Poetry is the unheard cry of a flower, wilting. It is a humble, lucent tear shed with meaning. It is the lovely portrayal of ugliness and the bitter edge of sweet.
Poetry speaks to the spirit by piercing understanding. It interprets all senseless truths―beauty, love, emotion―into sensible scrawl.
Poetry is vague affirmation and bewildering clarification. Like the most poignant of emotions, we understand the essence but cannot adequately do it verbal justice, crippled by inherently weak tongues.
A spiritual soothsayer, poetry is the closest thing to expression of feelings unutterable.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.”
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.”
“Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.”
“Poetry is the yearning of the soul to break free.”
“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”
“Poetry is thunder, wrapped in soft satin. A poem is a rose wrapped in snow.”
“Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.”
Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute
“Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
“Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.”
“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”
“Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race.”
“Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.”
Source: The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World
“Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.”
“Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.”
“Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.”
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
“Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.”
“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
“Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.”
“Poetry is what is gained in translation.”
“Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.”
“Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.”
Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas
“Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.”
“Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.”
“Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.”
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”
“Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.”
“Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new”
“Poetry is when you talk to yourself.”
“poetry is where the language is renewed.”
“Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.”
“Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude, it has the ability to reach out and touch in a humane and warmly illuminating way the solitude, even the loneliness, of others. That is why, to me, poetry is one of the most vital treasures that humanity possesses; it is a bridge between separated souls.”
“Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.”
“Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.”
“Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.”
“Poetry isn’t a ladder. It’s a holy bridge.”
Source: Our Nepal, Our Pride
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”
“Poetry isn’t arriving on the scene after any sort of hiatus. It has been smoking a cigarette on the sidelines this whole time.”
“Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.”
“Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.”
“Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?”
“Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn't feel relevant.”