850 private quotes tagged poetry

“I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.” — Shelby Foote

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“For me, poetry is always a search for order.” — Elizabeth Jennings

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“I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.” — Marianne Moore

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“I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.” — Kenneth Koch

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“I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.” — Kenneth Koch

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“I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.” — Tom Wesselmann

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“I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.” — Tobias Wolff

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“I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.” — Shelby Foote

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“Poetry is all nouns and verbs.” — Marianne Moore

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“As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.” — Kenneth Koch

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“Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.” — Asghar Farhadi

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“If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.” — A. E. Housman

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“I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.” — Bobby McFerrin

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“I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.” — Kenneth Koch

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“So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.” — Thomas Lynch

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“Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.” — Jack Prelutsky

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“I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.” — Jack Prelutsky

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“There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.” — Gyorgy Ligeti

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“I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.” — Anne Stevenson

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“So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.” — Aaron Neville

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“Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.” — Jack Prelutsky

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“Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.” — Jack Prelutsky

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“Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.” — Jack Prelutsky

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“That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.” — David Amram

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“I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.” — Anne Stevenson

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