Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry needs to be "easily understandable." First of all, there are often complexities of syntax, form, unfamiliar absences, etc.,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics,… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many… — John Updike Copy Share Image
contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea. — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
There is no one who can stop you; you find a mic, a crowd, a set of ears, and nowadays, a camera… — Bao Phi Copy Share Image
