Poetry Quotes

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. Matthew Arnold
Beautiful Saying Communication Most Beautiful Poetry Simply Most Effective Impressive Mode Things Widely
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. Niels Bohr
Language Atoms Poet Too Only Poetry Facts Concerned Creating Used Describing Nearly Images
The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Patti Smith
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Would Poetry Consumes Contain Lightning Which Ever Sword
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. Robert Frost
Politics Grief About Poetry Grievance
Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy. Robert Pinsky
Say Easy Poetry Real Should
Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it! Roberto Benigni
Sometimes Healthy About Poetry Stuff Talk Very Things Incomprehensible Need
I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form. Roger Zelazny
Day Every Day Chi Every Kind Poetry Writers Economy Look Read Exercise Form Teaches
Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Best Words Poetry Order
When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry. Spike Milligan
Me Sadness Try Something Poetry Over Terms Terrible Get Depressed Create
I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry. Sylvia Plath
Made Skin Cold Saw Ghost Poetry Had Over Know Passed Did
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Virginia Woolf
Best Poetry Delicious Prose True Most Which Full
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. W. S. Merwin
You Word Joke Lost One Word Poetry Wrong Like Making End Get Whole Thing
Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.' Quincy Jones
Few Jazz Rappers Poetry Through Songs Delta Talk Comedic Genre West African Realize Trash Dozens Slave
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. Maya Angelou
Gay You Man Woman Black White Has-Been Poetry Written Read Been Hispanic Straight Each
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. Bob Dylan
Myself Poet First Live Consider Musician Poetry Like Die Second
Always be a poet, even in prose. Charles Baudelaire
Poet Poetry Prose Always Even
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. A. E. Housman
Sometimes Will Understanding Pleasure Draw Out Poetry Perfect Almost May Meaning Even Extinguish
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem. Bernardo Bertolucci
Me Reality Before Films Kind Poem Only Poetry Attempt Make Return Accept Least Camera Create Each Film Interpretations
I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. Charlie Sheen
Time You Man Will Sorry Bro Air Destroy Magic Fingertips Poetry Most Naps Got Deploy Ordinance Ground
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. Denis Diderot
Music Age Old Old Age Painting Say Temperament Poetry Excellence Superstition Allowed Perform Goodbye Task Human
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like. Edward Hirsch
Soul Solitude Feeling Else Everyone Everyone Else Someone Poetry Like Very Middle Much Creates Asleep Awake Consciousness Night
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. Erica Jong
Love Death Beginning Those Paradox About Only Poetry How Sources Eros Subjects
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry. Ernst Haas
Creative Speak Will Made Pure Picture Composed Seeing Touching More Poetry Through Taken Prose Come Concentration Without Becomes Subject Existence Itself Than Want Informative Justify Less Moment Caption Descriptive Suggestive
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. Flea
Music Art You People World Few Kinds About Poetry Records Writers Knew Like Well Read Another Intellectuals Get Famine Ethiopia Filled
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. Frederick William Robertson
Think Poetry Feel Make Truly Office Accurately Us
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