Quotes about poetry
poetry
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. Janine Turner
poetry silence never-quit
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic
poetry fruit mute
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Archibald MacLeish
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poetry bankers mysterious
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. Allen Tate
poetry roles manipulation
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. Allen Ginsberg
poetry toenails poetry-is
Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle. Dylan Thomas
poetry gaps thunder
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
poetry trying literature
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. Clive James
poetry doe veils
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. E. B. White
poetry doe veils
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
poetry saws blind
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. Don Marquis
poetry bears weight
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. Anne Stevenson
poetry labels coins
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. Anne Sexton
poetry poet
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. Alphonse de Lamartine
poetry pardon burned
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. Alexander Pope
poetry together literature
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. E. M. Forster
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 together groups
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. Christopher Morley
poetry should haiku
The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. Anne Bancroft
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
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 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 subject war
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen
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
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 soul burning
Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. Bob Dylan