Paul Engle Quotes

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

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.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

I read mostly poetry.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

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

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

I love playing with words and texture.

The cliche is dead poetry.

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

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

I'm only interested in poetry.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

I'm a poet.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.