Famous Quotes
- Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
- Amy Clampitt on Poetry
- Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
- Robert W. Service on Poetry
- Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Don Marquis on Poetry
- Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
- John Updike on Poetry
- Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
- Ishmael Reed on Poetry
- Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
- Helen Dunmore on Poetry
- Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
- Adrian Mitchell on Poetry
- Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
- Antonin Artaud on Poetry
- Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
- Lord Byron on Poetry
- Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
- Virginia Woolf on Poetry
- You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
- Mario Cuomo on Poetry
- You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
- Carol Ann Duffy on Poetry
- You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.
- Phyllis Gotlieb on Poetry
- You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
- John Ciardi on Poetry
- You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
- Charles Olson on Poetry
- You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
- Stephane Mallarme on Poetry
- You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.
- Lena Dunham on Poetry
- You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.
- Fred Durst on Poetry
- You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
- Sherman Alexie on Poetry
- You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.
- Ellie Goulding on Poetry
- You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
- Ken Jennings on Poetry
- You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
- Joseph Joubert on Poetry
- You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
- Joseph Joubert on Poetry
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