Poetry Quotes

I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar. Richie Havens
You Yourself Guitar Thought First Before Took Saw About Drew Poetry Could Picking Performed Couple Wrote Years Up Escape Place While Then Village Express Express Yourself Portraits
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. Rick Springfield
Dark Those Kids Poetry Wrote Quiet
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. Rita Dove
Time Age Sex Every Filtered Every Time Apprehensive Would Would-Be Feared About Poetry Through Talked Race Lens
I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us. Rita Dove
Life People Think Everything Out One Of The Things Some Poetry Poets Tend Write Impetus Put Piece Around Shelf Real Up Forget Gets Happening Then Us Things Set
We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz. Rithy Panh
Creativity More Poetry Auschwitz After Need
My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of writing a song. I just knew the feeling, and I knew it was supposed to break and change at the same part, so that's how I write music. Ro James
Music Change Song Writing First Feeling Just Be Would Structure Poetry Write Never Part Knew Supposed How Understood Same Just Break Really Portrait
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. Robert Adamson
Writing Publish Living Guess Books Pretty Poetry Write Well Make Ambitious Plan
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that. Robert Adamson
Writing Say Poetry Had Most Well Read Prior Been Years Certainly Published Early Started
There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas. Robert Adamson
Good Example Thomas Cross Poems More Poetry River Between New Like Shelley Up Ended Where Dylan Dylan Thomas Good Example Actually Earlier
I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph. Robert Bringhurst
Together Long Big Think Photograph Fine Some Weave Something Poems More Poetry Like Know Piece Lot Snapshot Very Endless Quite Cloth Different Stories Interested Many Film Things
How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. Robert Bringhurst
Good You People Money Better Poet Something Poetry Never True Suppose Supposed How How Much How Much Money Lots Get Depends Which Much Turning Lower Should Product Your Many Income Why Things
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. Robert Creeley
Finally Something Poetry Prose Said Survived Get Formal Agencies
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. Robert Fitzgerald
Poetry Most Revelation Least Elegance
Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty. Robert Green Ingersoll
Truth Rude Beauty Oak Neither Must Runs Both Poetry Simply Contain Around Grand Vine
When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large. Robert Hass
Me Crazy Tremendous About Seemed Poetry Younger Notice Noticing Who Large
Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?' Robert Hass
Art You Business Heart World Too Much Too Way Claim Moral See Poetry Make How Question Goes Any Much Right
I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course, is an endless subject. Robert Indiana
Love Writing School High High School Poetry Mainly Since Concerned Course Been Subject Endless Theme Ever
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. Robert Littell
Reading Pleasure Poems Magnificent Poetry Return Still Get Walt Walt Whitman Again Them Whitman
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. Robert Morgan
Mathematics Translation Background Poetry Through Also Sciences Came Very Did Literary Interest Chinese Japanese
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. Robert Morgan
Great Watershed More Poetry French Than Modern Modern Poetry English
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. Robert Morgan
Best Think Several Poetry Written Days Contemporaries Most Read North Southerners American Being Among Enjoyment
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. Robert Morgan
Me Writing Language Kind About Seems Only Poetry Poets Dead Dead End End Itself
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. Robert Morgan
Language Definition Poetry Almost Attention Calls Form
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. Robert Morgan
Decision Made Reading More Poetry Write Writers No-One Prose Instead Almost Readers Narrative Verse Than Interested
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. Robert Morgan
Writing Important Own Ways Some Poetry Excitement Taking Over Years Your Teaching Away
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry. Robert Morgan
You Young Think Something Poetry Writers Encourage Very Essence Taught Them Young Writers Teach
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