Poetry Quote by John Wain Download Open image “I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.” — John Wain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it.” — John Cage Copy Share Image
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it. — Trevor McDonald Copy Share Image
This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said?” — John Crowley Copy Share Image
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest of the… — Tammy-Louise Wilkins Copy Share Image
“The high shelf Where you stacked the bad thing, hoping for calm, Broke. It rolled down. It follows you to the end.” — John Wain Copy Share Image
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what… — John Wain Copy Share Image
The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’. — John Wain Copy Share Image
This book-amber-clear, cool and with a good head-deserves a thoughtful swig even from people who never drink. — John Wain Copy Share Image
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar! — John Wain 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
