Approach Quote by John Cooper Clarke Download Open image “To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point.” — John Cooper Clarke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Approach Miss Poem Poetry Puzzle Understood
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger. — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.' — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to any artist is surrounding themselves with people who love everything they do. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a hell of… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
It was a tedious saying among hippies: if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. I was very much part… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
From social pariah to King of the World? It's taken 45 years, so I've been able to adjust to it! — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Well, I've obviously been a great source of inspiration to the academic population of Salford! They're citing me as a major contribution to their… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular method, my approach is very simple. I try to understand the emotional graph of the character. — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
