Poetic Power Quotes

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

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.

The glory of a next Augustan age A golden age of poetry and power Of which this noonday’s the beginning hour.

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy." His eyes flickered to Clare. "Even to forgive.

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own scent. The issue is the same for all real poets. If you've been happy for too long, you become banal. By the same token, if you've been unhappy for a long time, you lose your poetic power...Happiness and poverty can only coexist for the briefest time. Afterword either happiness coarsens the poet or the poem is so true it destroys his happiness.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

What a great poem teaches you - and it's not intellectual at all - is the resonance in the language that's heard there. This goes back to the very origins of poetry and to the very origins of language.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.