Good poetry Quote by Paul McCartney

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level…

— Johan Huizinga

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

— John Prine

Poets take themselves very seriously.

— Grace Paley

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

— Nick Cannon

“Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape,…

— Aase Berg

I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.

— Amber Tamblyn

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which…

— N. Scott Momaday

I have never been a serious person.... I am not serious at all because existence is not serious. It is so playful, so full…

— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

— Alice Kahn

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way…

— Rita Dove

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

— Alexandra David-Neel