Quotes about poetry
poetry rats terriers
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. A. E. Housman
poetry wisdom
We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips
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As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. Simon Schama
poetry religion may
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. Anna Jameson
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 remember enough
No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it. E. W. Howe
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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
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. Seamus Heaney
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.
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As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.
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
poetry century prose
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. David Hare
poetry-is knows dividends
Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Czeslaw Milosz
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 indignation
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] Juvenal
poetry
I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write. Amity Gaige
poetry saying
I have nothing to say And I am saying it And that is poetry John Cage
poetry seems
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere. Caitriona Balfe
poetry speak nectar
The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar. Henry Miller
poetry-is
... poetry is fired by love ... Erica Jong
poetry want exaggeration
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. Friedrich Nietzsche
poetry fool rhyming
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. Jack London
poetry attention lines
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head. Gwendolyn Brooks
poetry-is
The poetry is myself.
poetry
I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.
poetry possibility outrage
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ... Muriel Rukeyser