Poetry Is Quotes (page 14)

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• poetry
• culture
• grace

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. Juan Ramon Jimenez

• beauty
• text
• beautiful

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. Jim Jarmusch

• music
• art
• poetry

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. W. H. Auden

• silence
• expectation
• reality

...for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help us see or feel. If it were merely expressible - if there were nothing ineffable about it - there would be no need for a poem. But everywhere in the Bible we meet reality that exceeds our expectations. John Piper

• writing
• poetry
• free

Writing poetry is a state of free float Margaret Atwood

• words
• choose
• poetry

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words. Rita Dove

• soul
• poetry
• growing up

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul? J. M. Coetzee

• death
• rich
• looking back

We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death. George Steiner

• fear
• poetry
• reality

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality. Muriel Rukeyser

• poetry
• mind
• mindfulness

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. George Orwell

• poetry
• remember
• mortals

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not. Patti Smith

• reading
• magic
• poetry

Although you be, as I am, one of those Who feel a Christian ought to write in prose, For poetry is magic: born in sin, you May read it to exorcies the Gentile in you. W. H. Auden

• war
• cold
• intelligent

contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century. Nick Hornby

• wisdom
• poetry
• reasonableness

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom Jacques Lacan

• poetry
• soul
• souls

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary. Edgar Allan Poe