Poetry Quote by Stephen Dunn Download Open image “All good poems are victories over something.” — Stephen Dunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Victory
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.” — Aisha Mirza Copy Share Image
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings. Good poems,… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“He held her like a new woman and what she felt felt almost as good as love had, and each of them called it… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will be no… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“God knows nothing we don't know. We gave him every word he ever said.” — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world. — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“That time I thought I was in love and calmly said so was not much different from the time I was truly in love… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor.… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to… — Stephen Dunn 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
