Poetry Quote by Alan Hardy Download Open image ““Poet, writer and anti-royalist”” — Alan Hardy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Writing
“Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets and writers.” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what… — Cid Corman Copy Share Image
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition to science,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The poet who sees himself as a hero or a prophet, or a priest of the socio-political forces to which he is loyal, which… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A poem exists only in the relation between poet and reader. And I'm in need of my readers, except that they never cease to… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Blame the poets. It’s easier to stir people to rebellion if they think they’re on the side of a demigod or some chosen one.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.” — Frederick Smock Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
