Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty. "

Related Quotes:

" The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he bears to live or dares to die.' It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm. "

John Tyler

Poetry

Page

Live

" The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. "

" I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to. "

Tracy K. Smith

Day

Poetry

" There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. "

" When I applied for grad school, I did not specify genre. I said I wanted an MFA in Creative Writing. I was so cute and stupid! The admissions committee at Pitt decided to put me in poetry. "

" For me, prose walks, poetry dances. "

James Broughton

Prose

Walks

" Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. "

" I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry. "

" A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. "

" A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. "

" I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. "

" Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art

Logic

Music

" Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. "

" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "

" Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. "

" The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly. "

" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "

" Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. "

" Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. "

" The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. "

Seamus Heaney

Beyond

I Am

" Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. "

" Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. "

" When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. "

" Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. "

Vanessa Redgrave

Alive

Living

" All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions. "

" The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. "

Marilynne Robinson

Poetry

Knowledge

" Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century. "

" When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me. "

Marv Levy

Reading

First

" Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "

" My work should be seen as poetry. "