Poetry Quote by Armond White Download Open image “Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!” — Armond White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Realism
I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the real world… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Nobody reads poetry anymore So who the hell are you I see bent over this book?” — Aleksandar Ristovic Copy Share Image
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. — John Milton Copy Share Image
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception… — Armond White Copy Share Image
Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness… — Armond White Copy Share Image
The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark… — Armond White Copy Share Image
Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood… — Armond White Copy Share Image
Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of… — Armond White Copy Share Image
The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt. — Armond White 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
