Poetry Quotes

• In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Long
  • Poetry
  • English

• On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Passion
  • Person
  • Story

• Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

  

  B. B. King
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Poetry

• I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

  

  Mark Strand
  • American
  • Poetry
  • Personality

• I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Roots

• I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Kids
  • Poetry

• So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Want
  • Poetry

• I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Practice
  • Poetry
  • Feel

• Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Politics
  • Grief
  • Grievance

• We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Real
  • Home

• I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

  

  Chrisette Michele Payne
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Children

• 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

• We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Poetry
  • Things
  • Looking

• For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • World
  • Today
  • Rest

• When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Rhythm

• Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Soul
  • Poetry
  • Judgment

• Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

  

  Anna Jameson
  • Art
  • May
  • Poetry

• I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.

  

  Anya Taylor-Joy
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

  

  William Alfred Quayle
  • Comedy
  • Winter
  • Laughter

• Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry

• At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • School
  • Age
  • City

• Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Work
  • Job
  • Poetry

• Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

  

  Jeremy Bentham
  • Fall
  • Poetry

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