Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this."… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs". — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
“Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z. But this was different.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
![“I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z. But this was different. I read [in, Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot]: This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy. I started to cry. (…)The…” quote by Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ead/jeanette-winterson-166_books_i-wasn-t-reading-poetry-because-my-aim-w_1191707.jpg)