Poetry Comes Quotes
- What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &… — Mark Twain
- Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. — Abdul Kalam
- Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. — Natalie Merchant
- Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the… — Yusef Komunyakaa
- Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without — A. R. Ammons
- Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe. — Joseph Campbell
- I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of… — Diane Wakoski
- [M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it.... [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your… — Rajneesh
- There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte
- Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace. — Unknown Author
- The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. — Seamus Heaney
- The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more… — Lafcadio Hearn