850 private quotes tagged poetry

“In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.” — Archie Shepp

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“That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.” — Robert Creeley

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“Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.” — Malcolm Wilson

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“I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.” — Simon Armitage

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“I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.” — Martin C. Smith

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“We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.” — Naomi Klein

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“I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.” — Chrisette Michele

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“It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.” — Jason Newsted

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“Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.” — Natalie Merchant

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“Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.” — Anatole Broyard

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“The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.” — Graham Joyce

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“Poetry is a totally different art than film.” — Stan Brakhage

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“I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.” — Luke Treadaway

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“The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.” — Gilbert Murray

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“Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.” — James Branch Cabell

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“Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.” — James Laughlin

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“And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.” — John C. Ransom

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“The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.” — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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“The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?” — John C. Ransom

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“It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.” — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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“I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.” — Randall Jarrell

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“If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.” — Simon Armitage

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“Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.” — J. Courtney Sullivan

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“I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.” — J. Courtney Sullivan

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“Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.” — Laura Riding

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