Poetry Quotes

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. Russell Baker
Will Worse Airport Carrying Poetry Through Most Reads Loss Anticipating Very Than Heavy Public Little Luggage
A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long. Russell Smith
Music Song Long Few Sung Minutes Composition Only Voice Poetry Piece Instruments Short Set
The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint. Saint-John Perse
Spiritual Man Age Grace Will Men Poet Religions Born Atomic Poetry Through Divine He Part Been Exist Existed Cave Forever Human Which Spark Inherent Flint Even Lives Among Need
Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment. Saint-John Perse
Beauty Sole Poetry Allies Never Supreme Ultimate Ultimate Goal Goal Itself Union Nourishment Uses
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people. Sally Phillips
People School Definitely Drawings About Poetry Write Comic Lot Used
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. Salvatore Quasimodo
Man Valid Lyric Dramatic Religious Civic Only Poetry Categories Content Endorsement Formal Which Expression
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that. Samantha Morton
You Writing Brilliant Just Do It Think Poetry Write Writer Talent Like Short Just Stories Short Stories Film
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Best Words Remember Wish Clever Young Our Definitions Would Poetry Poets Prose Order Homely
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did. Sarah Kay
Great Say Something Poetry Poets Had Share Did Common Wants Storytellers Storytelling
I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper. Sasha Grey
Time Me Writing Rapper Girl White Think Easiest Easiest Thing Kids Hop Kind Poetry Since Like Because Around Hip Hip-Hop Came Were Been West West Coast Huge Going Just Want Just Kind Coast Naturally Thing Started
I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available. Satya Nadella
Great Reading Become Thanks Poetry Through Lots Versions Available Urdu Phase
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. Saul Williams
Life Thought My Life Become Would Poetry Never Always Making Making Up Up Rhymes
Poetry is more a threshold than a path. Seamus Heaney
Path Threshold More Poetry Than
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. Seamus Heaney
Possible Poetry Making Credit
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. Seamus Heaney
Political Expectation Positions Mutually Poetry Disapprove Said Public Groups
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. Seamus Heaney
Relationship You Slightly Poetry Mysterious Always Wonder Your
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. Seamus Heaney
Kind Poetry Write Refusal Experimental Avant-Garde Thing Basically Programme
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. Seamus Heaney
Heart States Poems Poetry Students Make Learn Graduate Quite Graduate Students Workshops Now United United States Thing
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. Seamus Heaney
Everything Poetry Intensity Utterance
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. Seamus Heaney
Life Poetry Arts Anything Fortify Your Inner Inner Life
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. Seamus Heaney
History Chapter Thomas Case Poetry The History Of Dylan Dylan Thomas Much Now
It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. Sean Bean
People Too Wildlife Would Poetry Know Read Surprise Lot Interested
Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art. Sebastian Lelio
Art Myself Poetry Could Through Idea Express
I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since. Sharon Creech
Me People Writing Worth Made Reading Entered Worth Reading Some Poem Poetry Written Mainly Since Around Contest Won Maybe After Realize Turned Reason Novels Ever Received
I don't want to bury anything in poetry. Sharon Van Etten
Poetry Want Anything Bury
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. Shelby Foote
Writing Everybody Way Find Poetry Writers Heard Hand Began Trying Quite Usual Ever Nearly
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