“More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.”
— Saul Williams
Author: Saul Williams
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Saul Williams
Tag: poetry
I credit poetry for making this space-walk
“I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.”
— Seamus Heaney
Author: Seamus Heaney
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Seamus Heaney
All good poetry is forged slowly and
“All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.”
— Alfred Douglas
Author: Alfred Douglas
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Alfred Douglas
I will not leave a corner of
“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
Author: Isaac Rosenberg
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Isaac Rosenberg
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics
“Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.”
— David Hare
Author: David Hare
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, David Hare
The musician is perhaps the most modest
“The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.”
— Erik Satie
Author: Erik Satie
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Erik Satie
I like the way words go together
“I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.”
— Jeffery Deaver
Author: Jeffery Deaver
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Jeffery Deaver
Experience has taught me, when I am
“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”
— A. E. Housman
Author: A. E. Housman
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, A. E. Housman
Poetry is the work of poets, not
“Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.”
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Author: Lascelles Abercrombie
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Lascelles Abercrombie
It takes most men five years to
“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”
— Brooks Atkinson
Author: Brooks Atkinson
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Brooks Atkinson
Poetry has been to me its own
“Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge