Famous Quotes
- The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
- The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
- Gilbert Murray on Poetry
- The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
- Philip Levine on Poetry
- The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
- Lynda Barry on Poetry
- The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
- William Shenstone on Poetry
- The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
- Martin Amis on Poetry
- The moment of change is the only poem.
- Adrienne Rich on Poetry
- The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
- Mark Knopfler on Poetry
- The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
- Erik Satie on Poetry
- The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
- Basil Bunting on Poetry
- The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
- Bruce Dickinson on Poetry
- The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.
- Teresa Palmer on Poetry
- The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.
- Jose Bergamin on Poetry
- The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
- Frederick William Robertson on Poetry
- The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
- Reynolds Price on Poetry
- The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
- Allen Ginsberg on Poetry
- The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
- Paul Muldoon on Poetry
- The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
- Robert Penn Warren on Poetry
- The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
- Richard Rosen on Poetry
- The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
- Jean Cocteau on 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 on Poetry
- The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau on Poetry
- The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
- Lionel Trilling on Poetry
- The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.
- Graham Joyce on Poetry
- The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
- George Murray on Poetry
- The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
- David Hare on Poetry
- The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
- Margaret Walker on Poetry
- The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine on Poetry
- The poetry of the earth is never dead.
- John Keats on Poetry
- The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry
- The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
- The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Poetry
- The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
- James Broughton on Poetry
- The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
- The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
- Laura Marling on Poetry
- The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
- Raoul Vaneigem on Poetry
- The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
- E. M. Forster on Poetry
- The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
- Muriel Rukeyser on Poetry
- The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
- Lafcadio Hearn on Poetry
- The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
- Ryszard Kapuscinski on Poetry
- The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
- Louis Kronenberger on Poetry
- The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
- Bertrand Russell on Poetry
- The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
- Robert Penn Warren on Poetry
- The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.
- Mike Leigh on Poetry
- The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
- James Gates Percival on Poetry
- The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
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