Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ~A. E. Housman
Poetry May Meaning
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. ~A. E. Housman
Morning Experience Poetry
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. ~A. E. Housman
Poetry Memory Skin
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. ~A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Happiness Poetry Deepest
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. ~A. R. Ammons
Poetry Reading Free
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. ~A. R. Ammons
Nature Poetry Grateful
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.' ~A. R. Ammons
Music Poetry Words
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. ~A. R. Ammons
Poetry Living Imagine
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. ~A. R. Ammons
Poetry Unknown Rational
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. ~A. R. Ammons
Poetry Value Values
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. ~A. R. Ammons
Change Today Poetry
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. ~A. R. Ammons
Poetry Risk Said
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday. ~Aaron Neville
Poetry People Want
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. ~Abbas Kiarostami
Poetry Darkness You
Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. ~Abbas Kiarostami
Time Poetry You
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. ~Adrian Mitchell
Poetry People Ignore
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. ~Adrian Mitchell
Poetry Rock Audience
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. ~Adrian Mitchell
Best Poetry Performance
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. ~Adrienne Rich
Relationship Power Poetry
The moment of change is the only poem. ~Adrienne Rich
Change Poetry Moment