Poetry - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66393<![CDATA[I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66392<![CDATA[Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66391<![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66390<![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65076<![CDATA[However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65075<![CDATA[A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65074<![CDATA[Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65073<![CDATA[Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64331<![CDATA[Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64327<![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64120<![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63990<![CDATA[As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63832<![CDATA[The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63828<![CDATA[The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63807<![CDATA[Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63806<![CDATA[A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46826<![CDATA[For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46827<![CDATA[Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46828<![CDATA[Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46823<![CDATA[All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46824<![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46825<![CDATA[Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46818<![CDATA[Poetry is all nouns and verbs. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46819<![CDATA[With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46820<![CDATA[Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46821<![CDATA[It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46822<![CDATA[Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46812<![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46813<![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46814<![CDATA[God is the perfect poet. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46815<![CDATA[I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46816<![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46817<![CDATA[A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46809<![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46810<![CDATA[Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46811<![CDATA[Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46807<![CDATA[It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46808<![CDATA[A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46802<![CDATA[To have great poets, there must be great audiences too. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46803<![CDATA[Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46804<![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46805<![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46806<![CDATA[Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46799<![CDATA[A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46800<![CDATA[A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46801<![CDATA[Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46796<![CDATA[Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46798<![CDATA[CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charm of evening skies, their lulling endurance; the patterns of stars with names of bears and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46793<![CDATA[Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46794