Poetry

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

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

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.