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- Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play;…
- I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something.…
- The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world.…
- Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in the tradition of…
- Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.
- Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very…
- If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints…
- The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.
- Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is…
- Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie in those miniscule…
- Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life…
- I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.
- Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
- Poetry calls into question what it means to be human
- Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous…
- Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There…
- Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.
- Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained…
- Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
- I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year…
More Poetry Quotes
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been… — Rajneesh
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden