850 private quotes tagged poetry

“I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.” — Roger Waters

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“I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.” — Howard Nemerov

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“Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.” — Ezra Pound

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“Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.” — Elia Kazan

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“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.” — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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“And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.” — Jane Campion

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“A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.” — Karen Armstrong

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“Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.” — Joseph Roux

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“I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.” — Taylor Momsen

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“As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.” — Jane Campion

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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.” — James Broughton

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“Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.” — Joseph Brodsky

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“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.” — Antonin Artaud

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“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.” — Thomas B. Macaulay

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“Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.” — Seamus Heaney

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“In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.” — Danielle Steel

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“Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.” — Wislawa Szymborska

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“I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.” — Rick Springfield

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“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.” — Thomas B. Macaulay

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“I'm not a great poetry fan.” — Rupert Everett

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“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.” — Adrienne Rich

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“That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“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

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“By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.” — Jean Cocteau

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