850 private quotes tagged poetry

“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” — Paul Valery

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

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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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“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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“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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“I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.” — Russell Simmons

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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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