Han Nolan Quotes

I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could fee your whole body light up from within.

Han Nolan

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• With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Passion
  • Purpose
  • Poetry

• Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Work
  • Music
  • Poetry

• Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • History
  • Mother
  • Poetry

• The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Poetry
  • Magic
  • Seems

• I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • California

• One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Together
  • True
  • Poetry

• Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration

• No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job....Poetry..remains one person talking to another....no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Job
  • Free

• Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains on butterfly wings.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • Butterfly

• Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • World
  • God
  • Poetry

• Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

  

  Christopher Fry
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Poetry

• The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

  

  Peter Davison
  • People
  • Poetry

• But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

  

  Peter Davison
  • Time
  • Poetry

• What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Soul

• Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Words
  • Poetry

• Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

  

  Cassandra Clare
  • Poetry
  • Literature
  • Influence

• I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Poetry
  • Darkness
  • Rhyme

• The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • People
  • World

• If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Hand
  • Emotional
  • Smart

• He who does now know evil will fall into it.

  

  Umar
  • Fall
  • Evil
  • Inspiring

• I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could fee your whole body light up from within.

  

  Han Nolan
  • Poetry
  • Bulb
  • Body light