Quotes about Poetry

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.

...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.