Poetry Quotes
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My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
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Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
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I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.
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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
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If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
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I always loved writing, be it creative writing for school or just poetry. I just loved writing, and in college, I started really trying to write songs and was copying other artists, just to figure it out - but I think freshman year of high school is when I realized, 'I want to be a writer. I have something to say.'
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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.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
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Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.
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Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.
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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.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
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The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.
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Poetry is a magic of pauses ... not a thing of tunes, but of heightened consciousness.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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Slogan-making is not poetry.
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Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.
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I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
