850 private quotes tagged poetry

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” — John Keats

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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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“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” — Jean Giraudoux

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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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“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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“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.” — Horace Walpole

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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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“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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“Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.” — Federico Fellini

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“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.” — Robert Graves

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“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.” — Havelock Ellis

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“I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.” — Anne Stevenson

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“My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.” — Guy Johnson

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“A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.” — W. H. Auden

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“Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.” — Beverley Nichols

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“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” — W. H. Auden

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“Love is the poetry of the senses.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.” — Virginia Woolf

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“A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.” — Chaim Potok

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“As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.” — Jhene Aiko

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

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“The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.” — Ryszard Kapuscinski

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

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“Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.” — Matthew Arnold

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