850 private quotes tagged poetry

“The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.” — John Ruskin

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“I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.” — Jane Campion

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“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.” — Jean Cocteau

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“Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.” — Samuel Prout

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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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“Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.” — Georges Braque

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“Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.” — Mark Strand

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“Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.” — Russell Baker

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“For me, prose walks, poetry dances.” — James Broughton

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“There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.” — Helen Thomas

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“I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.” — Norman MacCaig

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“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.” — William Hazlitt

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“Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.” — Robert Morgan

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“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.” — Jean Cocteau

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“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.” — Wilfred Owen

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“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” — Salman Rushdie

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“Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.” — Anne Stevenson

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“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.” — William Hazlitt

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“I read poetry to save time.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” — Don Marquis

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“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.” — Leonard Cohen

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“Always be a poet, even in prose.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.” — E. M. Forster

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“It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.” — John Ruskin

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