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Poetry Quotes (page 46)

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now. Virginia Woolf
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don’t just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn’t do it any better. If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep... Martin Luther King jr.
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780) John Adams
Anne Rice quote: "Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that..."
Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric. Anne Rice
With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady’s album – and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say. Gustave Flaubert
Leonard Cohen quote: "Deprivation is the mother of poetry."
Deprivation is the mother of poetry. Leonard Cohen
Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and herewere every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing. Dante Alighieri
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness. Edgar Allan Poe
Francois Mauriac quote: "I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is..."
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. Francois Mauriac
In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever. W. H. Auden
J. D. Salinger quote: "It's history. It's poetry."
It's history. It's poetry. J. D. Salinger
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry. Stephen Spender
Czeslaw Milosz quote: "The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to..."
The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person... Czeslaw Milosz
Chaos can be one means of arriving at a definable possibility, but if we look back at the works of Blake's youth chaos must be understood as something impossible, as a poetic violence and not as a calculated order. The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose. Georges Bataille
Yukio Mishima quote: "Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line..."
Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood. Yukio Mishima

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