Poetry quotes:
- "That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the ..."
By: David Amram - "Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history ..."
By: Aristotle - "Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets ..."
By: Antonin Artaud - "It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn ..."
By: Brooks Atkinson - "At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space ..."
By: Rene Auberjonois - "A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it ..."
By: W. H. Auden - "Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences ..."
By: W. H. Auden - "I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the ..."
By: John Ashbery - "Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the ..."
By: Russell Baker - "I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began ..."
By: Russell Baker - "I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began ..."
By: Russell Baker - "Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. "
By: Russell Baker - "I think would make it so interesting at that time was... you have great composers ..."
By: Cecilia Bartoli - "Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. "
By: Charles Baudelaire - "Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. "
By: Joseph Brodsky - "After all, what sparks of poetry can be kicked out of a football ? We ..."
By: Thomas Edward Brown - "Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. "
By: Anatole Broyard - "There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What ..."
By: Jean de la Bruyere - "Eloquence is the poetry of prose. "
By: William C. Bryant - "Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a ..."
By: William C. Bryant - "A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture ..."
By: Lord Byron - "If music and sweet poetry agree, as they must needs (the sister and the brother), ..."
By: Richard Barnfield - "The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no ..."
By: Gerald Brenan - "The cliche is dead poetry. "
By: Gerald Brenan - "The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion ..."
By: Basil Bunting - "I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. "
By: John Cage - "There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. "
By: John Cage - "The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and ..."
By: Louis-Ferdinand Celine - "If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, ..."
By: Miguel de Cervantes - "All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. "
By: Gilbert K. Chesterton - "Poetry lies its way to the truth. "
By: John Ciardi - "Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. "
By: Jean Cocteau - "Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. ..."
By: Jean Cocteau - "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is ..."
By: Leonard Cohen
- "I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; ..."
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. ..."
By: Judy Collins - "The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is ..."
By: James F. Cooper - "I don't know, I love the goofs in prose, I think they're beautiful. It's a ..."
By: Robert Creeley - "That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something ..."
By: Robert Creeley - "I stay away from the typical terms of a diary. It's not like, "Today I ..."
By: Macaulay Culkin - "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. "
By: Mario Cuomo - "Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where ..."
By: George William Curtis - "Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. "
By: James Branch Cabell - "People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a ..."
By: Lucille Clifton - "I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I ..."
By: Bruce Cockburn - "My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is ..."
By: Countee Cullen - "And one of the odd things about it is that poetry is now fleeing from ..."
By: Peter Davison - "And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many ..."
By: Peter Davison - "But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books ..."
By: Peter Davison - "But nobody can write poetry all the time. "
By: Peter Davison - "But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. "
By: Peter Davison - "Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as ..."
By: Peter Davison - "Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of ..."
By: Peter Davison - "However, in 1950 there might have been 150 books of poetry published in a year. ..."
By: Peter Davison - "I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. ..."
By: Peter Davison - "If they want to know anything about poetry, they simply have to go out and ..."
By: Peter Davison - "It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ..."
By: Peter Davison - "My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write ..."
By: Peter Davison - "People who deliver their work in poetry slams have a lot of vitality, and they ..."
By: Peter Davison - "Poetry is composing for the breath. "
By: Peter Davison - "Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to ..."
By: Peter Davison - "Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. "
By: Peter Davison - "The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because ..."
By: Peter Davison - "There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. "
By: Peter Davison - "They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need ..."
By: Peter Davison - "Why is it that the industrialization of poetry in the educational process has made the ..."
By: Peter Davison - "The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to ..."
By: Johnny Depp
- "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I ..."
By: Emily Dickinson - "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire ..."
By: Emily Dickinson - "There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers ..."
By: Emily Dickinson - "When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human ..."
By: Denis Diderot - "After all, lyrical poetry's main concern is to express, inc this way, a fleeting constellation ..."
By: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - "Because lyrical poetry was still relatively new; it only first emerged with Klopstock, or, if ..."
By: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - "The enclaves don't mind losing the pageantry of the grand calendrical rituals, losing the colour, ..."
By: Mary Douglas - "I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made ..."
By: Trevor Dunn - "She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. "
By: James Dickey - "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood ..."
By: Paul Dirac - "Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. "
By: Rita Dove - "Right after The Losers I wrote several other, monumentally unpublishable, books, and was beginning to ..."
By: David Eddings - "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. "
By: Albert Einstein - "As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, ..."
By: T. S. Eliot - "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "
By: T. S. Eliot - "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is ..."
By: T. S. Eliot - "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, ..."
By: T. S. Eliot - "Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent ..."
By: T. S. Eliot - "Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms ..."
By: Henry Ellis - "All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision ..."
By: Paul Engle - "Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved ..."
By: Paul Engle - "All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact ..."
By: Gustave Flaubert - "Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as ..."
By: Gustave Flaubert - "Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. "
By: Robert Frost - "Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. "
By: Robert Frost - "Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "
By: Robert Frost - "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "
By: Robert Frost - "Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in ..."
By: Christopher Fry - "Between religion's "this is" and poetry's "but suppose this is," there must always be some ..."
By: Northrop Frye - "Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the ..."
By: Kahlil Gibran - "Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying ..."
By: Allen Ginsberg - "The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of ..."
By: Allen Ginsberg - "The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness ..."
By: Jean Giraudoux
