Famous Quotes
- Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.
- James Laughlin on Poetry
- On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.
- Michael Cunningham on Poetry
- On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
- On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
- Richard Serra on Poetry
- 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 on Poetry
- One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
- Nathalie Sarraute on Poetry
- One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
- Stephen Sondheim on Poetry
- One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry
- One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
- One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.
- Ally Condie on Poetry
- One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
- Paul Muldoon on Poetry
- Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
- Julio Cortazar on Poetry
- Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
- Jack Prelutsky on Poetry
- Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
- Mark Strand on Poetry
- Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
- Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
- Simon Armitage on Poetry
- People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
- Lucille Clifton on Poetry
- Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
- Thomas B. Macaulay on Poetry
- Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
- Lafcadio Hearn on Poetry
- Personality is everything in art and poetry.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Poetry
- Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
- Horace Walpole on Poetry
- Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
- Wislawa Szymborska on Poetry
- Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
- Matthew Arnold on Poetry
- 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 on Poetry
- Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
- William Shenstone on Poetry
- Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.
- Nikki Giovanni on Poetry
- Poetry and prayer are very similar.
- Carol Ann Duffy on Poetry
- Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
- Charles Baudelaire on Poetry
- Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.
- Toi Derricotte on Poetry
- Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
- Laura Riding on Poetry
- Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.
- Maurice Saatchi on Poetry
- Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
- Natalie Merchant on Poetry
- Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
- Gertrude Stein on Poetry
- Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
- David Lehman on Poetry
- Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
- Samuel Prout on Poetry
- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
- William Blake on Poetry
- Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
- James Broughton on Poetry
- Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
- F. L. Lucas on Poetry
- Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Poetry
- Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
- H. L. Mencken on Poetry
- Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
- Christopher Fry on Poetry
- Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
- Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
- Vladimir Nabokov on Poetry
- Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
- Horace Walpole on Poetry
- Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
- Khalil Gibran on Poetry
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