850 private quotes tagged poetry

“The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.” — Raoul Vaneigem

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“I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.” — Janine Turner

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“American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.” — Diane Wakoski

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“There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.” — Thom Gunn

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“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

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“The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.” — Bruce Dickinson

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“Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.” — Salvatore Quasimodo

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“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.” — Edith Hamilton

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“Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.” — David Hare

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“Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.” — Allen Tate

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“High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.” — Diane Wakoski

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“I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.” — Diane Wakoski

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“How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.” — Allen Tate

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“The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.” — Teresa Palmer

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“My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.” — Thom Gunn

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“I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.” — Ed Westwick

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“I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.” — Diane Wakoski

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“Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.” — Wilfred Owen

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“And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.” — Mark Strand

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“Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.” — George Murray

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“I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.” — Diane Wakoski

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“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

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“Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.” — Walter Mosley

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“Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.” — Harry Mathews

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“I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.” — Mark Strand

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