Poetry Quote by Lucie Brock-Broido Download Open image “I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.” — Lucie Brock-Broido ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Poetry is Real Real world World
Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry. — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Something I have "authority" on is animal rights. If I were not already so deep into the path I've taken, deep in the woods,… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
At the heart of my life is the idea that I don't ever want anything to ever change. That's the basic tenet. — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“From 'Periodic Table of Elements': A girl ago, a girlhood gone like a phial of ether | Thrown on fire--just | A little jump… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and I would… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“There she was, the mother of me, like a lit plinth, Heavenly, though I was reared to find this kind Of visitation impractical; she… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption. — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me. — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics. Politically, I… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote that I… — Lucie Brock-Broido 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
