Stephane Mallarme Quotes

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

It's not easy to define poetry.

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

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

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

When I first began writing, it was not in screenwriting but in poetry. That form was so evocative, all about the image and the emotion captured in a Polaroid-like smattering of words.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

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

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

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

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.