Poetry Quote by Jeremy Limn Download Open image “Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.” — Jeremy Limn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Purpose
What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things? — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought. — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I remember growing up and music was always the friend that didn't bully me. Music didn't judge me Music didn't tell me to eat… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Having depression is tough, but surviving every day and telling yourself to go one more day longer is truly courageous. Amidst, all the pain… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
''For the depths 'Of the the ocean ''Show the shrieks Of moulded yellow Vast is the eye that can see and the eye That… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
''And one day when all is gone and mankind is lost, all he leaves is the desert.'' ''For man is his own demise the… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Words connect us to emotion, the tone of music connects us to the centre of the human heart. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The only good things about life are 1. Sex 2. Sleep 3. Music 4. Alcohol 5. Hot Showers 6. Hanging with friends 7 Watching… — Jeremy Limn 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
