Poetry Quotes
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You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.
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On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in a language adapted for discussing trees, rocks, and automobiles -- as well as poetry and emotions.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
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Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.
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Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Although I was quiet as a child, I had this resistless passion inside of me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
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I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
