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Poetry Quotes
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. - Robert Morgan Quotes
Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. - Vanessa Redgrave Quotes
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. - W H Auden Quotes
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. - Tobias Wolff Quotes
I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesnt play, it has a poignancy to it. - Jim Jarmusch Quotes
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike Quotes
It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things Ive done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but theyre always poems first. - Jason Newsted Quotes
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost Quotes
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. - Alfred Edward Housman Quotes
The poetry of the earth is never dead. - John Keats Quotes
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. - Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didnt mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it. - Johnny Depp Quotes
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. - John Drinkwater Quotes
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. - Eugenio Montale Quotes
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. - Thomas Hardy Quotes
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. - Steven Pinker Quotes
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. - Paul Muldoon Quotes
Id always loved poetry and Id always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadnt thought of putting the two together until around that time. - Bruce Cockburn Quotes
Dancing is the poetry of the foot. - John Dryden Quotes
What is poetry which does not save nations or people? - Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. - Archibald Macleish Quotes
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. - Mark Strand Quotes
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 its not. - Kenneth Koch Quotes
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. - Georges Seurat Quotes
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. - Carl Sandburg Quotes
I look for poetry in English because its the only language I read. - Jack Prelutsky Quotes
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. - Russell Baker Quotes
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldnt agree with Bly that its a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention. - James Laughlin Quotes
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