Robin Williams Quotes

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

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

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.

I love to write poetry.

A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a flower, and sometimes with a quick knife-slice.

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril