850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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“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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“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.” — Muriel Rukeyser

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

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

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“When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.” — Caroline Kennedy

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“I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.” — Amanda Seyfried

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“In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.” — Paul Valery

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“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.” — Maria Montessori

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“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

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

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“Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.” — George William Curtis

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“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.” — Goldwin Smith

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“The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.” — Erik Satie

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“I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.” — Russell Baker

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“I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.” — Joni Mitchell

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“I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.” — J. Michael Straczynski

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“Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.” — Erica Jong

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“It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.” — John Cusack

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“You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.” — Sherman Alexie

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“An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.” — Raymond Chandler

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“Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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