Campbell McGrath Quotes

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

Campbell McGrath

• Poetry
• Needs
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• Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Sad

• I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Me
  • Respect

• Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Poetry
  • Everything
  • Soft

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was – you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Know
  • Sense
  • Rules

• People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Decision

• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Poetry
  • Communicate
  • Genuine

• Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Poetry
  • Better
  • Voice

• When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Poetry
  • Honesty
  • Modern

• But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Important
  • Poetry
  • Beauty

• 'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • End
  • Cute

• Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Poetry
  • Search

• The 'social contract,' in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Sense
  • Conquest
  • Conquerors

• Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

  

  James Martineau
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Prayer

• For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • 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

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

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Words
  • Poetry

• Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Poetry

• My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

  

  Dylan Walsh
  • Father
  • Poetry

• I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Money
  • Las Vegas
  • Rape

• People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

  

  Campbell McGrath
  • Poetry
  • Needs
  • Sense