850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” — Audre Lorde

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“I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.” — Allen Tate

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“The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.” — Gaston Bachelard

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“With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.” — Peter Abrahams

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“Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.” — Julio Cortazar

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“Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.” — Robert Morgan

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“I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.” — Emilio Estevez

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“My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.” — Michael Sheen

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“The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.” — Robert Morgan

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“It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.” — Mary Gordon

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“All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.” — Stevie Smith

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“Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.” — Robert Morgan

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“It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.” — Jenny Holzer

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“Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.” — John Drinkwater

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“I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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“Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.” — Thomas Hardy

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“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.” — Ezra Pound

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“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.” — Andres Segovia

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“Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.” — Edward Koch

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“You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.” — Ken Jennings

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“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.” — Terry Eagleton

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