Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again,… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Political poetry is the hardest thing to write because you cannot preach to the converted, and if you're only seeking to convert,… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game. — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
