850 private quotes tagged poetry

“But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.” — Jeffery Deaver

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“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.” — Joseph Roux

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“Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.” — William Shenstone

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“I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.” — Carol Ann Duffy

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“Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.” — Andrew Motion

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“I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.” — Andrew Motion

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“I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.” — Callan McAuliffe

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“Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.” — Bette Midler

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“Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.” — Andrew Motion

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“A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.” — Douglas Dunn

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“I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.” — Norman MacCaig

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“There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.” — Edward Young

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“I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.” — Jacques Derrida

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“If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.” — Wallace Stevens

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“However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.” — Norman MacCaig

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

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“All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.” — Norman MacCaig

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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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“I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.” — Eugenio Montale

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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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“This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.” — Eugenio Montale

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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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“Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.” — James Broughton

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

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