850 private quotes tagged poetry

“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.” — Ezra Pound

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“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.” — Horace

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“Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.” — Wislawa Szymborska

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“I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.” — Jenny Eclair

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“I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.” — Jewel

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“Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” — Don Marquis

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“Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.” — Christopher Fry

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“I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.” — Naguib Mahfouz

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“There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.” — George Will

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

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“Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.” — Mary Oliver

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

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“I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.” — Robert Morgan

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“Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.” — Robert Morgan

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“You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.” — Robert Morgan

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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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“Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.” — Robert Morgan

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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, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.” — Robert Morgan

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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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“Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.” — Robert Morgan

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“I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.” — Robert Morgan

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“I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.” — Robert Morgan

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“Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.” — Robert Morgan

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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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