Quotes about poe
poems
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
poetry seems
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere. Caitriona Balfe
poems printed title took yorker
The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.
poet lays values
Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay. Caroline Norton
poetry possibility outrage
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ... Muriel Rukeyser
poetry form
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
poetry spirit source
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
poetry would-be world
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
poetry poetic breathe
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
poet
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. Jules Verne
poetic poet interest
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. Muhammad Iqbal
poet passing currents
For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing. Marguerite Yourcenar
poet term
One must love a poet on its own terms. Paul Gray
poetry roles literature
In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony. Joseph Brodsky
poetry-is translations
Poetry is what is gained in translation.
poetry poetry-is breaths
Poetry is the breath of beauty. Leigh Hunt
poetry mind fine
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace. Ovid
poetry letters jest
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.
poetry hammers hollow
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. John Ashbery
poetry sorrow radiance
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance. Honore de Balzac
poet dylan allan-poe
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. Jack Prelutsky
poetry able stuff
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. Ishmael Reed
poet great-poet
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. Kenneth Koch
poetry tasks criticize
I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all. Margaret Atwood
poetry language poetry-is
poetry is where the language is renewed.
poet born orators
We are born poets. we become orators. Marcus Tullius Cicero
poet orators
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
poetry excellence madness
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
poetry poet
There were poets before Homer.
poet conceit orators
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
poetic-license poetry poetic
The freedom of poetic license.
poetry
Any time is the time to make a poem. Gertrude Stein
poetry needs world
All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad. Patricia MacLachlan