Like Poetry Quotes

41 quotes by 36 authors

• A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. — William Wordsworth
• Hubble touches people. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so… — Story Musgrave
• I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole… — Robert Frost
• The land is like poetry:Â Â it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration… — Barry Lopez
• Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all. — C.S. Lewis
• The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place… — Robert Bly
• Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so... — Izaak Walton
• To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was… — Bruce McCulloch
• I'm not an expert in the deck at all. My interest lies somewhere near a sense that words are like tarot cards, and that a… — Alice Notley
• The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to.… — H. L. Mencken
• His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
• Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features… — Francisco Goya
• Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G. H. Hardy
• I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to… — Justin Townes Earle
• I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the… — William Wordsworth
• Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the… — Woody Allen
• Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it. — Gilbert Highet
• I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. — Anne Stevenson

Who Wrote These Like Poetry Quotes

36 authors contributed a total of 41 Like Poetry Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Like Poetry Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
• 2 Like Poetry Quotes by William Wordsworth
• 2 Like Poetry Quotes by Izaak Walton
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Rabindranath Tagore
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Nathalie Sarraute
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Karen Armstrong
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Mark Haddon
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Marshall McLuhan
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Wyclef Jean
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Muriel Spark
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Wallace Stevens
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Karl Lagerfeld
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Joyce Cary
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Ilona Andrews
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Gary Shteyngart
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Azra T
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Story Musgrave
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Thomas Harrison
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Robert Frost
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Friedrich Von Schlegel
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Barry Lopez
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Like Poetry Quote by Robert Bly