Quotes about poetry
poetry published volume wrote
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. Tony Buzan
poetry verses wrote
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. Sophie Hannah
poetry
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. Janine Turner
poetry saying whining
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. John Donne
poetry wrote
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. Tao Lin
poetry firsts sound
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. Charles Olson
poetry literature poetry-is
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. Carl Sandburg
poetry literature synthesis
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
poetry invisible keepsakes
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
poetry barriers syllables
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
poetry fruit mute
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Archibald MacLeish
poetry poetry-is barbaric
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. Denis Diderot
poetry tone melancholy
Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones. Edgar Allan Poe
poetry poverty instinct
A person born with an instinct for poverty. Elbert Hubbard
poetry seemed tremendous
When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large. Robert Hass
poetry subject war
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen
poetry whereas
Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it. Roger McGough
poetry though version
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you. Douglas Coupland
poetry refusal
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. Seamus Heaney
poetry prior published
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that. Robert Adamson
poetry poet born
Poets are born, not paid. Addison Mizner
poetry
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
poetry produce
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. Norman MacCaig
poetry
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry. Chang-Rae Lee
poetry remember enough
No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it. E. W. Howe
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
poetry
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
poetry
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
poetry promote
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
poetry
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
poetry
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
poetry
I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry. Edward Hirsch
poetry suburban teenager
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.