Poetry Quote by James Goldman Download Open image ““I want Poetry and Power and the young men who create it.”” — James Goldman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Young men
“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.” — Aisha Mirza Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the guardian of love - constructed from truth it is a bridge that can be crossed from either side and it is… — Rodney Compton Copy Share Image
“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.” — Major Jackson Copy Share Image
“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.” — Marc Norman Copy Share Image
Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought. — James Goldman Copy Share Image
“I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time. ” — James Goldman Copy Share Image
“I've plotted and schemed all my life. There is no other way to be a King, fifty and alive all at once.” — James Goldman Copy Share Image
“Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!” — James Goldman Copy Share Image
“I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.” — James Goldman Copy Share Image
“John: "Poor John. Who says poor John? Don't everybody sob at once! My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living… — James Goldman Copy Share Image
“I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy? I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to… — James Goldman Copy Share Image
“Geoffrey: Why, you chivalric fool—as if the way one fell down mattered. Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.” — James Goldman Copy Share Image
“He came down from the North to Paris with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the Commandments on… — James Goldman 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
