Poetry Quote by Charlie Chaplin Download Open image “Why should poetry have to make sense?” — Charlie Chaplin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Should
Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible. — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
What is the point of narrating poetry when the listener can't appreciate and enjoy the meaning? — Brahmanandam Copy Share Image
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
I am not religious in the dogmatic sense ... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics, — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
