Tobias Hill Quotes

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

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

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Lyricists play with words.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

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

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

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.

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