Poetry Quote by David Joseph Cribbin Download Open image ““Poetry is a beacon slicer.”” — David Joseph Cribbin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.” — Jeremy Young Copy Share Image
“Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.” — Vanessa M. Chattman Copy Share Image
“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I think good poetry should startle, shatter and, yes, entertain while getting as close to the truth as possible. I can get all the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree, when I… — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
“A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
“Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.” — David Joseph Cribbin 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
