850 private quotes tagged poetry

“What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.” — Fernand Leger

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“Poetry must be made by all and not by one.” — Comte de Lautreamont

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“So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.” — Tracy K. Smith

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“Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.” — David Lehman

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“The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.” — Reynolds Price

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“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.” — John Andrew Holmes

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“Poetry is a sort of homecoming.” — Paul Celan

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“Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.” — Amy Clampitt

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“Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.” — Edmund Clarence Stedman

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“Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.” — J. G. Stedman

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“For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.” — Edward Dowden

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“That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.” — Galway Kinnell

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“Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.” — William Rose Benet

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“Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.” — Joshua Logan

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“Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.” — W. S. Merwin

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“I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.” — Alfred Edward Housman

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“I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.” — J. Milton Hayes

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“I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.” — Angela Sarafyan

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“Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.” — Lucille Clifton

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“Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.” — Georges Seurat

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“I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.” — Tom Wesselmann

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“For me, poetry is always a search for order.” — Elizabeth Jennings

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“All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.” — Alfred Douglas

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“I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.” — Zona Gale

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“For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.” — Christopher Smart

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