Famous Quotes
- And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
- Ezra Pound on Poetry
- And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
- Norman MacCaig on Poetry
- And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
- Mark Strand on Poetry
- And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
- Jane Campion on Poetry
- Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
- Russell Baker on Poetry
- Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
- Charles Baudelaire on Poetry
- Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
- Steven Pinker on Poetry
- Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Poetry
- As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
- Daniel Radcliffe on Poetry
- As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
- Thomas B. Macaulay on Poetry
- As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
- Jane Campion on Poetry
- As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
- Kenneth Koch on Poetry
- As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.
- Jhene Aiko on Poetry
- As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
- T. S. Eliot on Poetry
- As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
- Goldwin Smith on Poetry
- At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
- Satyajit Ray on Poetry
- At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.
- Rene Auberjonois on Poetry
- Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
- Carol Ann Duffy on Poetry
- Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
- Cheryl Hines on Poetry
- Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.
- Compay Segundo on Poetry
- Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care that's what poetry is supposed to do.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
- W. H. Auden on Poetry
- Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
- A. R. Ammons on Poetry
- Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
- Simon Callow on Poetry
- Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
- Muriel Rukeyser on Poetry
- But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
- Ian Hamilton Finlay on Poetry
- But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
- Lafcadio Hearn on Poetry
- But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
- Ian Hamilton Finlay on Poetry
- But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
- Chinua Achebe on Poetry
- But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
- Alfred De Vigny on Poetry
- But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
- Jeffery Deaver on Poetry
- But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
- Thomas Lynch on Poetry
- But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
- By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
- Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
- Jean Cocteau on Poetry
- Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
- Dennis Potter on Poetry
- Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
- Jack Prelutsky on Poetry
- Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
- George Oppen on Poetry
- Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
- Ezra Pound on Poetry
- Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.
- James Laughlin on Poetry
- Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
- Archibald MacLeish on Poetry
- Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
- Anna Jameson on Poetry
- Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
- Robert Staughton Lynd on Poetry
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