850 private quotes tagged poetry

“That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.” — Paul Muldoon

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“I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.” — Paul Auster

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“Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.” — Archibald MacLeish

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“If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.” — John Drinkwater

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“Poetry is its own medium it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.” — Story Musgrave

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“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.” — Muriel Rukeyser

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“I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.” — Story Musgrave

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“A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.” — John Drinkwater

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“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.” — Johann Georg Hamann

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“I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.” — James Dickey

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“The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.” — John Drinkwater

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“The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.” — Muriel Rukeyser

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“I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.” — James Dickey

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“Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.” — Compay Segundo

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“When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.” — Story Musgrave

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“For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.” — Giorgos Seferis

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“For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.” — John Drinkwater

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“Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.” — Maurice Saatchi

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“The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.” — Louis Kronenberger

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“Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.” — John Drinkwater

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“But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.” — John Drinkwater

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“It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.” — John Drinkwater

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“To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.” — John Drinkwater

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“Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.” — John Drinkwater

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“We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.” — John Drinkwater

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