Poetry Quote by John Moore Download Open image “Slang is a poor man's poetry” — John Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Slang
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor. — Marie Ponsot Copy Share Image
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit… — Harley King Copy Share Image
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“When men competed for positions of power, it was generally acknowledged that the ones who got it were invariably the ones who could least… — John Moore Copy Share Image
“Okey." Charming leaned back and rocked the chair on two legs. "Let's asses the situation. We've got a fourteen-fot green-spiked dragon, male, possible in… — John Moore Copy Share Image
“Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it.” — John Moore 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
