850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.” — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.” — Leonard Cohen

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“One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.” — Robert W. Service

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“I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.” — David Hockney

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“If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.” — Margaret Walker

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“Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.” — Herbert Spencer

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“Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.” — W. H. Auden

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“The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.” — James Broughton

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“I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.” — Annie Lennox

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“Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.” — Vladimir Nabokov

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“Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.” — David Duchovny

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“Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.” — James Buchan

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“If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.” — Robert Graves

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“The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.” — Lynda Barry

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“Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“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

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“I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.” — Leonard Cohen

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“Poetry: the best words in the best order.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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