Poetry Quote by William Everson Download Open image ““A poem is contained movement. ”” — William Everson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.” — James Stephens Copy Share Image
I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation. — William Everson Copy Share Image
“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.” — William Everson Copy Share Image
“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.” — William Everson Copy Share Image
The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to… — William Everson Copy Share Image
I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I… — William Everson Copy Share Image
“One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness . . . which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.” — William Everson Copy Share Image
“Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an… — William Everson 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
