Poetry Quotes

When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz. John Fuller

Music is closer to poetry than anything. John McLaughlin

Music Poetry Than Closer Anything

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. John Singer Sargent

Thought Entirely Poetry Talent Overcomes Times Certain

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest. John Updike

Myself Say Must Poetry Tend Write Exciting Over Look Most

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music. Johnny Flynn

Music Writing Guess Poetry Stuff Decided Then Started Set

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick! Jonas Mekas

Cinema Care Poet States About Only Poetry Know Known Am dont Care Maverick Europe United United States Here Filmmaker

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song. Jordin Sparks

Music Song First Become Older Bit Poetry Could Written Put Since First Grade Until Grade Little Little Bit Realized

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. Jose Ortega y Gasset

Preserved Adolescence Poetry Thus

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story. Jose Saramago

My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater volume and be distributed in far greater volume, in far more substantial manner. You can sell in supermarkets very cheaply. In paperbacks. You can sell in drugstores. Joseph Brodsky

You Simple Books Distributed More Poetry Volume Simply Cheaply Idea Greater Sell Very Substantial Far Manner Should Published

Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more. Joseph Brodsky

Art Something More Poetry Branch

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy. Joseph Brodsky

Me Relentless Poetry Sort Nonstop American Human Autonomy Sermon

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species. Joseph Brodsky

Important More Poetry Prose Human Just Different Human Species Species

From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. Joseph Bruchac

Work Words Tribal Other Teenage Teenage Years Books Press Out Indian Small Poetry Involved Also Became Sought Years Review Very American Authors Listened Nations Native Elders Many Publishing Started

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert

You Will Unless Find Some Poetry Anywhere Bring

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. Joseph Roux

Science Those Poetry Know Learn Who

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate. Joy Harjo

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