Quotes about poetry
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poetry essentials needs
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it. Edward Hirsch
poetry use would-be
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. Edith Sitwell
poetry humanity
We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
poetry teach
poetry had everything to teach me about life. Diane Ackerman
poetry-is touchstones feigning
The truest poetry is the most feigning. William Shakespeare
poetry
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. Natasha Trethewey
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 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 logic
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young
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 littles spirituality
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it. Craig Johnson
poetry-is happens
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. Charles Bukowski
poetry
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry. Chang-Rae Lee
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
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
poetry indignation
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] Juvenal
poetry qualified
Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically. Louis MacNeice
poetry time
Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.
poetry ted writes
Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people. Dave Evans
poetry served
Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.
poetry
Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy. Robert Pinsky
poetry
Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
poetry
Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. Juan Felipe Herrera
poetry
Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.