Famous Quotes
- If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
- Wallace Stevens on Poetry
- If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Poetry
- If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
- Muriel Rukeyser on Poetry
- If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
- Robert Graves on Poetry
- If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
- A. R. Ammons on Poetry
- If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
- David Carradine on Poetry
- If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.
- Glen Hansard on Poetry
- If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
- Jim Jarmusch on Poetry
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
- M. H. Abrams on Poetry
- If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry
- If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
- Simon Armitage on Poetry
- In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.
- Andrew Motion on Poetry
- In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
- Phyllis McGinley on Poetry
- In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.
- Norman MacCaig on Poetry
- In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
- Seamus Heaney on Poetry
- In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
- Danielle Steel on Poetry
- In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.
- Juan Goytisolo on Poetry
- In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
- Paul Valery on Poetry
- In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
- Wallace Stevens on Poetry
- In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
- Lawrence Summers on Poetry
- In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
- Archie Shepp on Poetry
- In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac on Poetry
- In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
- Wislawa Szymborska on Poetry
- In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
- John Barton on Poetry
- In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
- Richard M. Nixon on Poetry
- In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
- Abbas Kiarostami on Poetry
- In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
- James Broughton on Poetry
- Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
- Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
- James Buchan on Poetry
- It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.
- Jason Newsted on Poetry
- It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins on Poetry
- It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
- Charles Baudelaire on Poetry
- It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
- John Millington Synge on Poetry
- It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
- Charles Baudelaire on Poetry
- It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
- Lafcadio Hearn on Poetry
- It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
- John Ruskin on Poetry
- It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
- Brooks Atkinson on Poetry
- It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
- Mary Gordon on Poetry
- It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
- It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
- Carol Ann Duffy on Poetry
- It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.
- Peter Steele on Poetry
- It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
- Robin Wright Penn on Poetry
- It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
- Samantha Morton on Poetry
- It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.
- Jenny Holzer on Poetry
- It's not easy to define poetry.
- It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.
- John Cusack on Poetry
- Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
- Archibald MacLeish on Poetry
- Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
- Archibald MacLeish on Poetry
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