Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.

To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.

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

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.

Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical—the human world of violence and difference—and to reach the transcendent or divine …

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.