Poetry Quotes

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
James Schuyler

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
F. L. Lucas

Her, Far, Voice

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
William Collins

Humor, Nothing, Mean

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
Robert Hass

Time, Justice, Job

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
Flea

Music, Art, Another

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
Thomas Lynch

History, Language, Subject

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
David Hunt

Fun, Done, Made

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.
Ally Condie

Time, Good, Teacher

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
Michael Graves

Music, Truth, Same

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.
Misha Collins

Write, Poet, Published

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
Robert Adamson

Writing, Pretty, Living

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.
Robert Adamson

Writing, Read, Started

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.
Robert Adamson

Good, Between, Actually

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.
Christina Perri

Time, School, Writing

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Anthony Hope

Ignorance, Wish, Sometimes

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
Merritt Wever

Work, Acting, Used

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
Juan Ramon Jimenez

Before, After, State

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
Richard Hell

Good, Dead, Until

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
George Oppen

Beautiful, Clarity, Achieve

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
George Oppen

Time, Honesty, Question

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. Brown

Freedom, Words, Sense

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
Adrian Mitchell

Rock, Around, Needs

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.
Adrian Mitchell

Love, Music, Hope

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
Georges Braque

Reality, Ray, Reveals

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!
Tristan Wilds

Love, Good, Write

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