Poetry Quote by Hayden Carruth Download Open image “Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.” — Hayden Carruth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Poetry is Poetry Poetry Poetry Uses Speak Speak Use Use Use Poetry Uses
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us.… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“A poem is not an expression, nor it is an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is Is never to… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity. — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“Language not urged and crammed with love is nothing, while that which is is everything.” — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“I like that name, that game too, though utterly valueless, the animal in us just sufficiently domesticated, our venomous American aggressiveness confined to balls… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam Well I have and in fact more than one and I'll tell… — Hayden Carruth 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
