Poetry Quotes
-
I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
-
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
-
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions.
-
I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.
-
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
-
In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
-
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found-the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.
-
Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
-
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
-
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
-
If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
-
I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.
-
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
-
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
-
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
-
Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.
-
When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
-
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
-
She lives the poetry she cannot write.
-
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
-
I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
-
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
-
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
-
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
