Poetry Quotes
-
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?
-
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!
-
I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.
-
In the street the rain was little more than a fine mist which softened the outlines of the houses and even lent a touch of poetry to a neighbourhood unlikely to evoke tender emotions. He raised his eyes to a roofline bristling with television aerials, lowered them again to windows still blank before the evening lights were lit.
Anita Brookner -
Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
-
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
-
My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and a raised bit in the corner for performances. I've had some really lovely parties and poetry readings up there.
-
Prose is walking; poetry is flying...
-
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
-
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
-
We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.
-
Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought.
-
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
-
The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad poetry and bad music.
-
I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
-
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
-
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
-
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
-
I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation
-
Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.
-
I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an office full of elderly people who looked after blind ex-servicemen.
-
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
-
Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
-
Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.
