Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: poetry

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

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

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.

Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.