Quotes on Poetry

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

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

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

The sky dreams of stars, the earth dreams of love.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Take 7 emcees put em in a line_x000D_ _x000D_ And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme_x000D_ _x000D_ It'll take 7 more before I go for mine_x000D_ _x000D_ And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.