Famous Quotes
- Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
- Anatole Broyard on Poetry
- Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
- Andres Segovia on Poetry
- Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.
- Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
- Maxine Hong Kingston on Poetry
- Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
- Jim Morrison on Poetry
- Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
- Juan Ramon Jimenez on Poetry
- Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
- Daisaku Ikeda on Poetry
- Love is the poetry of the senses.
- Honore De Balzac on Poetry
- Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
- Seamus Heaney on Poetry
- Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
- Walter Pater on Poetry
- Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
- Beverley Nichols on Poetry
- Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry
- Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on Poetry
- Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
- Philip Levine on Poetry
- Money is a kind of poetry.
- Wallace Stevens on Poetry
- Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
- Federico Fellini on Poetry
- More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
- Andrew Motion on Poetry
- More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.
- Saul Williams on Poetry
- Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.
- Thurston Moore on Poetry
- Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
- Adrian Mitchell on Poetry
- Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
- Wallace Stevens on Poetry
- Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
- Terry Eagleton on Poetry
- Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
- Ezra Pound on Poetry
- Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
- Joshua Logan on Poetry
- Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
- Malcolm Wilson on Poetry
- Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me.
- Ryan Adams on Poetry
- My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
- Jack Bowman on Poetry
- My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.
- Michael Sheen on Poetry
- My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
- Dylan Walsh on Poetry
- My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.
- Herschel Walker on Poetry
- My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
- James Broughton on Poetry
- My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
- Guy Johnson on Poetry
- My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
- Philip Levine on Poetry
- My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
- Harry Mathews on Poetry
- My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
- John Barton on Poetry
- My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
- My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
- Wilfred Owen on Poetry
- Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.
- Richard Eyre on Poetry
- Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
- Eugenio Montale on Poetry
- Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
- Wilfred Owen on Poetry
- No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.
- Thomas Harrison on Poetry
- No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?
- John Barton on Poetry
- No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
- No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
- Knut Hamsun on Poetry
- Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
- Isaac Rosenberg on Poetry
- Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne on Poetry
- None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
- Edith Hamilton on Poetry
- Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry
- Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
- Philip Levine on Poetry
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