P Quotes
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“Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.”
“Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from
the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from
what your teacher taught you to do in school.”
“Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.”
“Poetry itself, whether we accept this gift or not, is an
authentic and artistic way to express the unique story of our lives. As music notes are interpreted by musicians and carried out through different instruments, so too is poetry
interpreted through the eyes of the heart.”
Source: Gems Beneath the Coals of Fire: Thriving in chaotic times through supernatural power
“Poetry, just like life, is never what we want it to be.”
Source: SONG FOR YOU / CÂNTEC PENTRU TINE (Bilingual English–Romanian Edition / Ediție bilingvă engleză–română / 2025): Poems of Love, Madness & Resurrection / ... nebunie și renaștere
“Poetry keep the mind in peace.”
“Poetry keeps longing alive.”
“Poetry keeps the door open to awe and ensures that we will find our way through the broken heart field of wars, losses and betrayals to understanding, compassion and gathering together.”
“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.”
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues
“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.”
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues
“Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.”
“Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.”
“Poetry lies its way to the truth.”
“Poetry lit fire in the vast forest of memories within you.”
“Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“Poetry magically excites an unknown mysterious emotion.”
“Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”
Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
“Poetry makes nothing happen.”
“Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.”
“Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.”
“Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.”
“Poetry makes the language, language makes no poetry.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”
Source: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England
“poetry
melts my bones.
enters my blood.
and changes
its composition.”
“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
“Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.”
“Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.”
Source: Studies in Words
“Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.”
“Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.”
Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Poetry must be as well written as prose.”
“Poetry must be at least
as powerful as music, but
I am not sure that
it is possible.”
“Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.”
“Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.”
“Poetry must be made by all and not by one.”
“Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.”
Source: Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings
“Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.”
Source: Yo-yo boing!
“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”
Source: Selected Writings
“Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.”
“Poetry, my nationality,
words, my brethren.
To the world I'm monsoon,
for inside I'm barren.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.”
“Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.”
“Poetry never plays a more important role than it does during revolutionary periods; poetry gave the revolution its voice and in return the revolution liberated poetry from isolation; the poet now knows he is being heard by the people, especially young people; for youth, poetry and revolution are one and the same.”
Source: Life is Elsewhere
“Poetry never stood a chance
of standing outside history.”
Source: Your Native Land, Your Life
“Poetry now, here, is not taken so seriously, or noticed so widely. But, however few who may now look to them, poems still can be felt as needed, felt as one way to give needed name to things that need naming.”
“Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention spans and all of that. It Twitters very easily, some lyric poems and it's very easy to zip a poem to someone, so that's one of the things I think is wonderful about poetry in the digital age.”
“Poetry of the universe is written with flowers and the lights of love on a canvas we call earth.”
“Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.”
“Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
“Poetry often distills complex ideas and emotions into simple yet powerful language.”
Source: Simple Essays: Unlocking the Power of Concise Expression
“Poetry often emphasizes the beauty of language and the sound of words. The use of rhyme, rhythm, and figurative language can create a sensory experience that goes beyond mere information or prose. This aesthetic appeal can captivate and engage readers or listeners.”
Source: Simple Essays: Unlocking the Power of Concise Expression