850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!” — Tristan Wilds

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“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.” — Juan Ramon Jimenez

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“I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.” — Zona Gale

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“Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.” — Norman O. Brown

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“I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.” — Robert Hass

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“Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.” — David Hunt

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“There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.” — Robert Adamson

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“The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.” — George Oppen

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“Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.” — Adrian Mitchell

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“I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.” — Adrian Mitchell

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“Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.” — F. L. Lucas

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“All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.” — Flea

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“Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.” — Robert Adamson

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“I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.” — Christina Perri

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“I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.” — Anthony Hope

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“Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.” — Robert Adamson

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“Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.” — George Oppen

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“The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.” — Robert Penn Warren

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“Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.” — Vanessa Redgrave

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“I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.” — Stevie Smith

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“Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.” — Misha Collins

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“Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.” — James Martineau

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“There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.” — Anthony Hecht

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“Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.” — John Denham

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“I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.” — J. Carter Brown

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