Poetry Quotes

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. Georges Seurat
Science Say See Some Only Poetry Paintings
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. Helen Thomas
Music Peace Better Hatred Living Our Corps Our Music Ways Poetry Exchange Students Better Ways Ideals Blue Blue Jeans Transform Teachers Exporting Jeans Peace Corps
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet. Jeffery Deaver
You Writing Girl Poet Living Unless Frankly Poetry Make Does Lot Get Professor
We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive. Jim Harrison
Alive Poetry Write Supposed Gods Keep
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. John Berger
Become Way Drawing Poetry Between Like Metaphor Coming Just Separated Connection Things
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. John Cage
Saying Nothing Say Poetry Am
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. John Donne
Saying Fools Poetry Know Am Loving Whining Two
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. John Drinkwater
Man Few Moods Various Poetry Unstable Subjects Same Infinitely Arts While
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. John Drinkwater
Word Value Circumstance Poetry Imperfect External
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
Nature Sky Every Out Spirit Poetry Written Looks Within Which Us Star
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert
You Will Unless Find Some Poetry Nowhere Bring
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. Joseph Roux
Truth Sunday Clothes Poetry
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. June Jordan
People Other Guards Unknown Our Mute Only Poetry Leaders Between Becomes Dialogue So-Called Against Manipulation Us Produces Means Useful Who Each Among
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. Keith Haring
Me Poetry Fallen Been Up Swallowed Enlightened
Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement. Lance Henriksen
Future Art Moving Forward World Sense Think Other Find Poetry Had Know Sure Always Fit Up Than Going Movement Where Anything Moving Forward Growing Growing Up Kept
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. Leonard Cohen
Myself Singing Jazz Group Chanting Lyrics Poetry Never Liked Read Readings Really
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. Lucille Clifton
Life Matter Language Poetry Just
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Marianne Moore
Art Poetry Real Toad Creating Gardens Imaginary
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others. Mary Karr
Me You Suffering Passion Community Others Else Someone Poetry Take Make Doing Commune Body Communion Your Your Body
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Mary Oliver
Wilderness Earth Ancient Fine Fine Arts Poetry Within Began Did Arts Original
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. Muhammad Iqbal
Truth Heart Philosophy Poetry Becomes Gets Burning Then
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. Muriel Rukeyser
Completeness Spirit Seeking Poetry Sources
Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone. Natasha Trethewey
Everyone Poetry Thing Belongs
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. Nathalie Sarraute
People Poet Poetry Write Like Readers Cannot Who
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. Paul Auster
Work Food Money Own Translation Pay Earn Sideline Way Out Kind Spilled Table My Own Poetry Poets Put Contemporary French Sort Always Bread Interested Translating
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. Peter Abrahams
Dreams Myself World Books Born Shakespeare Poetry Self Self-Consciousness New Know Terms New World Standards Consciousness Desired Desires Set
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