850 private quotes tagged poetry

“They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.” — Peter Davison

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“The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.” — Peter Davison

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“But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.” — Peter Davison

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“And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.” — Peter Davison

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“But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.” — Peter Davison

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“There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.” — Peter Davison

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“It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.” — Peter Davison

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“As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.” — Goldwin Smith

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“Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.” — Simon Callow

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“The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.” — David Hare

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“Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.” — David Hare

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“Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.” — Wilfred Owen

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“Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.” — Salvatore Quasimodo

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“He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.” — Salvatore Quasimodo

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“Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.” — Salvatore Quasimodo

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“Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.” — Michael Tippett

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“The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.” — Bruce Dickinson

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“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.” — Edith Hamilton

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“The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.” — Raoul Vaneigem

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“There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.” — Allen Tate

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“Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.” — Allen Tate

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“How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.” — Allen Tate

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“Eloquence is the poetry of prose.” — William C. Bryant

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“The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.” — Teresa Palmer

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“I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.” — Ed Westwick

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