850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.” — Theodore Sturgeon

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“I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.” — Allen Ginsberg

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“In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.” — Abbas Kiarostami

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“Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.” — Abbas Kiarostami

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“Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.” — Archibald MacLeish

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“While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.” — David Antin

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“I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.” — David Antin

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“The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.” — Laura Marling

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“Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.” — Gaston Bachelard

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“In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.” — Phyllis McGinley

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“The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.” — Frederick William Robertson

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“I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.” — Judy Collins

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“A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.” — Lisa Bonet

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“Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.” — Jerry B. Jenkins

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“The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.” — Mark Knopfler

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“I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.” — Marilyn Hacker

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“When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.” — Marilyn Hacker

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“Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.” — Marilyn Hacker

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“An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.” — John Barton

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“Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.” — John Barton

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“In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.” — John Barton

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“If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.” — John Barton

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“My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.” — John Barton

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“I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.” — Shelby Lynne

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“It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.” — John Millington Synge

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