850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Prose talks and poetry sings.” — Franz Grillparzer

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“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.” — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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“I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.” — Sally Kirkland

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“I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.” — Peter Davison

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“Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.” — Peter Davison

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“Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.” — Peter Davison

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“Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.” — Peter Davison

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“I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.” — Charles Olson

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“Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.” — Richard Eyre

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“They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.” — Peter Davison

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“But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.” — Peter Davison

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“There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.” — Peter Davison

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“Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.” — Peter Davison

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“And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.” — Peter Davison

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“But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.” — Peter Davison

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“Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.” — Simon Callow

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“As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.” — Goldwin Smith

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“I think poetry is best read to oneself.” — Rickie Lee Jones

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“Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.” — Maxwell Bodenheim

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“Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.” — Salvatore Quasimodo

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“There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.” — Allen Tate

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“Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.” — Thom Gunn

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“Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.” — Michael Tippett

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“But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.” — Diane Wakoski

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“Eloquence is the poetry of prose.” — William C. Bryant

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