“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.” ThinkingWorldDoeLyingPoetryNightTimeLiteratureLinesPartyPoetExpressionBedPoetry IsPoetry By Famous PoetsPoetry By PoetsWhat Is Poetry Author:Allen Ginsberg
“What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.” WayWritingLooksHeartDoeMightMovingPoetryDiesSecretSawsFlowerTerribleBeatsScreensOpeningPoetry IsVividClosingHeart BeatWhat Is Poetry Author:Elizabeth Smart
“Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.” MenPoetryRebellionPoetry IsUprisingWhat Is Poetry Author:James Branch Cabell
“The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.” MenWritingMayLittlesEndsLightPoetryCapacityMythMeaningfulMeaning Of LifePoetry IsMeaningful LifeLife MeansGreat PoetryWhat Is Poetry Author:Robert Penn Warren
“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.” PoetryCan DoWrittenPoetry IsGreat PoetWriting PoetryGreat PoetryWhat Is Poetry Author:Stephen Spender
“But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” LifeRomancePoetryAliveSocietyPoetPoetry IsCarpe DiemStaying AliveCarpeRomance LoveWedding ToastWedding SpeechDead Poets SocietyDead PoetsPoetry By PoetsLoneliness In LifeWhat Is Poetry Author:Robin Williams
“Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” RomanceLawPoetryAliveSocietyPoetNoblePursuitPoetry IsEngineeringCarpe DiemStaying AliveCarpeRomance LoveWedding ToastWedding SpeechDead Poets SocietyDead PoetsPoetry By PoetsLoneliness In LifeWhat Is Poetry Author:Tom Schulman
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.” KnowsWantMeanArtPoetryCoursesEmotionPoetExpressionPersonalityPoetry IsLiterary CriticismPoetry By Famous PoetsPoetry By PoetsLoosenessIndividual TalentWhat Is PoetryExpressing Emotions Author:T. S. Eliot
“What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.” PoetryImaginationEmotionNobleSuggestionsWhat Is Poetry Author:John Ruskin
“Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.” KnowsLightPoetryEasyEasierWhat Is Poetry Author:Samuel Johnson