Poetry Quotes
- Page 4Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
Kenneth Koch
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
Isaac Rosenberg
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
Elia Kazan
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.
Paul Auster
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Lewis Thomas
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
Marilyn Hacker
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
Paul Muldoon
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
Lascelles Abercrombie
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Edward Young
Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.
Diane Wakoski
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
Samuel Prout
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
John Drinkwater
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
Richard Dawkins
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Seamus Heaney
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverley Nichols
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
Lynda Barry