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Poetry Quotes by Vikram Seth
- Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll…
- Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a…
- You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or…
- You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
- Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past.…
- Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet,…
- I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy…
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
- If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been… — Rajneesh
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky
- Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he… — Ani DiFranco