850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.” — David Lee Roth

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“Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.” — Mark Strand

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“We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.” — Jack Prelutsky

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“Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.” — Arnold Palmer

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“The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.” — James Gates Percival

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“I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.” — Jewel

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“Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.” — Wislawa Szymborska

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“Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.” — William C. Bryant

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“Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.” — Wislawa Szymborska

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“It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?” — Robin Wright Penn

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“I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.” — Jenny Eclair

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“I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.” — Wislawa Szymborska

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“Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.” — Christopher Fry

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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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“I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.” — Robert Morgan

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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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“Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.” — Robert Morgan

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“Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.” — Robert Morgan

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“I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.” — Robert Morgan

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“The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.” — Robert Morgan

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“Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.” — Marilyn Hacker

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“I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.” — Robert Morgan

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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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