850 private quotes tagged poetry

“One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.” — Stephen Sondheim

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“The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.” — Lewis Thomas

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“Always be a poet, even in prose.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.” — Patti Smith

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

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“Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.” — Russell Baker

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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 think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.” — Roger Waters

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“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” — June Jordan

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“Money is a kind of poetry.” — Wallace Stevens

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“Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.” — Wallace Stevens

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“My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.” — James Broughton

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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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“Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.” — Erica Jong

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“I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.” — Erica Jong

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“You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.” — Fred Durst

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“Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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“Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.” — Nikki Giovanni

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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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“Poetry lies its way to the truth.” — John Ciardi

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“If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.” — Robert Morgan

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“Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.” — Edward Young

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“Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.” — Ezra Pound

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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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