Books Quote by Cate Marvin

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that we have…

— Ava Dellaira

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just…

— Daniel Radcliffe

“Poetry is such an amazing feeling that flows like a river.”

— Euginia Herlihy

Amazing is the blue sky, the wind that blows and the scent of rain; when it falls from the sky. Amazing is the laughter…

— Twila Williams

Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic…

— Cate Marvin

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

— Mary Oliver

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

— Wendy Cope

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

Poetry is the dark side of the moon,

— Charles Wright

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of…

— Goldwin Smith