Quotes about poet
poet poetry teach wrote
He said, 'I can't teach someone how to write,' ... He just thought if you were a poet, you wrote poetry.
poetry
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry. Chang-Rae Lee
poet public wandered
He was a poet who serendipitously wandered into public life.
poetry ridiculous seems understand
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous Galway Kinnell
poetry work
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. Ed Westwick
poetry
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell. Franz Wright
poets since
But since he died, and poets better prove,Theirs for their styleI'll read, his for his love. William Shakespeare
poet
But I was a poet before I was an actor. Casper Dien
poetry rats terriers
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. A. E. Housman
poet traces
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. Rene Char
poetry wisdom
We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips
poets simply words
We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words John Fowles
poetry science
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
poetry-is touchstones feigning
The truest poetry is the most feigning.
poetry
My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well. Jess Walter
poet sacked strip work workshop
I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back. Daisy Ridley
poetry
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. Octavio Paz
poetry
Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
poetry
Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice. Phoebe Snow
poet teacher time
As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to. Philip Schultz
poetry realizing poetic
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. John Cage
poet lyrical duty
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life. James Stephens
poet
He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up. James M. Barrie
poetry literature surprise
Poetry surprises us with what we already know. John Fuller
poetry brutal humans
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. John Millington Synge
poetry together violence
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... John Berger
poetry myrtle ruins
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed? George Crabbe
poetry earning poet
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper. Edward Dahlberg
poetry together pulpit
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. Edith Hamilton
poetry
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. Eminem
poetry merit praise
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. Jose Marti
poet company
Oh, what company good poets are!
poetry metaphor algebra
Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors. Jose Ortega y Gasset