Poetry Is Quotes (page 2)

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• architecture
• poetry
• bridge

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. Audre Lorde

• beautiful
• beauty
• mirror

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. Percy Bysshe Shelley

• poetry
• manly
• against

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. James Branch Cabell

• poetry
• learning
• innocent

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. Karl Shapiro

• life
• poetry
• rather

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. Joseph Brodsky

• moments
• friends
• poetry

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. Erica Jong

• power
• universe
• ultimate

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. Adrienne Rich

• poetry
• vision
• words

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. Tahar Ben Jelloun

• power
• nature
• poetry

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world. Richard Eberhart

• poetry
• distance
• manly

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• poetry
• language
• separates

Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language. Paul Valery

• silence
• poetry
• silences

Poetry is an orphan of silence. Charles Simic

• emotional
• giving
• inspiration

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite. Ezra Pound

• heart
• poetry
• graffiti

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• door
• moments
• leaving

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment. Carl Sandburg