英语格言警句_Poetry_(P11)

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

- Audre Lorde

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

- Carl Sandburg

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't e from the surface; they e from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

- Judy Collins

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

- Colette

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy and sorrow.They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves.Whenever I feel my courage wavering I rush to them.They will give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.

- Helen Hayes

The moment of change is the only poem.

- Adrienne Rich

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.

- Emily Dickinson

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

- John Cage

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

- Aristotle

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

- Plato

The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some 20 or 30 farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

- James Branch Cabell

A poem begins with a lump in the throat.

- Robert Frost

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

- Carl Sandburg

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

- Robert Frost

Poetry is just the evidence of life.If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

- Leonard Cohen

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats.Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

- Hafiz of Persia

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

- Gustave Flaubert

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see --i t is, rather, a light by which we may see -- and what we see is life.

- Robert Penn Warren

All the poet can do today is warn.That is why true Poets must be truthful.

- Wilfred Owen

I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

- Denise Levertov

A poetry articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be acpanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.

- Denise Levertov

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, merce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

- John Adams

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

- Rollo May

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

The Conservative

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

- Robert Frost

With my poems, I finally won even my mother.The longest wooing of my life.

Braided Lives

- Marge Piercy

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

- Virginia Woolf

I hung my verses in the wind,Time and tide their faults may find.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson