Famous Quotes
- So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.
- Tracy K. Smith on Poetry
- 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 on Poetry
- So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
- June Jordan on Poetry
- Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
- Tomas Transtromer on Poetry
- Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
- Thomas Mann on Poetry
- Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
- Wislawa Szymborska on Poetry
- Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
- David Hunt on Poetry
- Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
- Virginia Woolf on Poetry
- Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.
- Georges Seurat on Poetry
- Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
- John Barton on Poetry
- Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
- Ani DiFranco on Poetry
- Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
- Adrian Mitchell on Poetry
- Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
- Elia Kazan on Poetry
- Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
- Walter Pater on Poetry
- Superstition is the poetry of life.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Poetry
- Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
- Walter Scott on Poetry
- Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.
- Andrew Motion on Poetry
- That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
- That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.
- David Amram on Poetry
- That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
- Robert Creeley on Poetry
- That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
- Walter Pater on Poetry
- 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 on Poetry
- That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
- Paul Muldoon on Poetry
- That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
- Galway Kinnell on Poetry
- The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
- John C. Ransom on Poetry
- The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
- Johnny Depp on Poetry
- The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
- Richard Dawkins on Poetry
- The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
- Caroline Kennedy on Poetry
- The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
- Sylvia Plath on Poetry
- The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
- T. S. Eliot on Poetry
- The cliche is dead poetry.
- Gerald Brenan on Poetry
- The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
- Lewis Thomas on Poetry
- The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
- Seamus Heaney on Poetry
- The crown of literature is poetry.
- W. Somerset Maugham on Poetry
- The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
- Charles Baudelaire on Poetry
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
- Victor Hugo on Poetry
- The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
- Laura Riding on Poetry
- The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
- Seamus Heaney on Poetry
- The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
- June Jordan on Poetry
- The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
- George Oppen on Poetry
- The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux on Poetry
- The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
- Gaston Bachelard on Poetry
- The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
- John Ruskin on Poetry
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