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Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.
Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.
Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.
Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.
The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.
To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.
Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.
The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.
Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were
"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.