Poetry Quotes
-
Queen Latifah was writing poetry. Maybe Latifah's 'Ladies First' and Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman' are the same thing, a generation apart.
-
I have always used a great variety of verse forms, especially in my poetry for children. I believe that poetry begins in childhood and that a poet who can remember his own childhood exactly can, and should, communicate to children.
-
What can be explained is not poetry.
-
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
-
Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.
-
If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.
-
Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin',' he set a whole new standard.
-
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
-
I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could fee your whole body light up from within.
-
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
-
It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
-
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
-
“If the impress on the imagination is that of a high poetic form it is not because the poetry is 'allegorically' imposed on the stuff, but because the stuff is allowed to render up its own poetic essences.”
-
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
-
There is only one art of writing, and that is the art of poetry..whether it is in the form of prose or in rhyme and meter or in rhymed cadence.
-
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
-
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
-
I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try and keep mine pretty informal. Sometimes we have wine or sake, and we read aloud, and we talk.
-
Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.
-
I think it's really hard to move between genres, and I think, especially in Britain, we're very judgmental about it - me included. I know that when an actor comes out with some poetry or an album, I think, 'Oh crikey, what's this going to be like?'
-
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
-
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
-
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
-
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .
