Pastoral Resources

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

The cliche is dead poetry.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Poetry is life distilled.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.