Poetry Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I wanted all things To seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, Instead of tense. And I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or…

— kurt Vonnegut

“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. Sing in the shower. Dance…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Dwayne’s real mother was a spinster school teacher who wrote sentimental poetry and claimed to be descended from Richard the Lion-Hearted, who…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow -…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I just can't help thinking what a real shake up it would give people if, all of a sudden, there were no…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“. . . Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or…

— Kurt Vonnegut