Charles Wright Quotes

Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

Charles Wright

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• Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Myself
  • Poetry
  • Now And Then

• I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Earth
  • Moon
  • Mars

• Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Beauty

• Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Up
  • Different
  • Bad

• It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Shows
  • Side
  • U.S.

• Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Moon
  • Presidential

• The flip side of humiliation is pride.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Pride
  • Side
  • Humiliation

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

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

  

  Patrick White
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Running

• 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

• Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • American
  • Responsibility
  • Poetry

• 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

• Behind every man's external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Dark

• There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Ignorance

• The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Passion

• The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the Night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.

  

  Lord Byron
  • World
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market is less than $1 million. And the returns, when things work out, can be enormous.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Work

• I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.

  

  George Phillips Bond

• The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would create new bonds of unity through its elimination and transcending of the party system, was highly attractive and conveyed much of Nazism's dynamic appeal.

  

  Ian Kershaw
  • Power
  • Political
  • Party

• People love Twinkies, and everyone knows about them, yet Hostess went bankrupt. Attention and commercial success have an uncertain relationship in business.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been... and I will be.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Time
  • Great

• Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

  

  Charles Wright
  • Poetry
  • Moon
  • Side