Poetry Quote by Paul Muldoon Download Open image “We simply have not kept in touch with poetry” — Paul Muldoon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini, — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too — Paul Muldoon 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
