Poetry Quotes
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When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was.
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Meditating were my thoughts On the vain poetry of the bards of Brython. Making the best of themselves in the chief convention. Enough, the care of the smith’s sledge-hammer. I am in want of a stick, straitened in song, The fold of the bards, who knows it not?
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Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.
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Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.
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Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.
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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.
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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.
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Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped - always somebody else’s horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!
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I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation
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I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well.
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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
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I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.
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Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
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Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.
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My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
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My mum is a singer and harpist, and my dad writes fantastic poetry, so we've grown up around a lot of words and music.
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'They wanted to come in after the pounds', explained Pooh, 'so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come'.
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It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
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And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
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I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
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happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.
