850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.” — Anna Jameson

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“Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.” — Tom Holt

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“I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.” — Isaac Rosenberg

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“I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.” — Isaac Rosenberg

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“Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.” — Isaac Rosenberg

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“If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.” — Roger McGough

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“Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.” — Roger McGough

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“What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.” — Laurie Lee

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“Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.” — James Schuyler

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“Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.” — F. L. Lucas

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“I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.” — Robert Hass

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“All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.” — Flea

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“But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.” — Thomas Lynch

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“Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.” — David Hunt

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“Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.” — Misha Collins

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“Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.” — Robert Adamson

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“Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.” — Robert Adamson

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“There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.” — Robert Adamson

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“I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.” — Christina Perri

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“I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.” — Anthony Hope

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“I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.” — Merritt Wever

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“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.” — Juan Ramon Jimenez

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“Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.” — Richard Hell

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“Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.” — George Oppen

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“The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.” — George Oppen

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