Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure. "
Billy Collins
You
Imagination
New
Related Quotes:
" Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. "
Jack Prelutsky
Reading
I Can
Poetry
" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Advances
Almost
Civilization
" I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us. "
Rita Dove
Forget
Us
Think
" 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. "
Roberto Benigni
Reach
Poetry
Beauty
" I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it. "
Derek Walcott
Scream
You
Poetry
" I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Think
Help
" Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. "
Jim Harrison
Language
You
Speak
" Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold. "
Julian Baggini
Poetry
Deaf
People
" If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything. "
Alice Oswald
People
Poetry
Light
" There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. "
Henry R. Luce
Poetry
Who
Write
" Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. "
Thomas Mann
Birth
Solitude
Poetry
" For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art. "
Robert Pinsky
Value
Art
Love
" Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. "
Natalie Merchant
Me
Alive
Recitation
" When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else. "
Joy Harjo
Think
Yourself
Soul
" I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. "
Pablo Neruda
Born
Voice
River
" Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. "
Ezra Pound
Art
Sculpture
Real
" I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "
J. Carter Brown
Arts
Like
Poetry
" Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. "
Archibald MacLeish
World
Feel
Poetry
" You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. "
Joseph Joubert
You
Will
Bring
" So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work. "
Terrance Hayes
Work
Poetry
Mirror
" A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware of the necessity of a more harmonious relation between man and nature, we need to build cities which can connect with human spiritual needs instead of being merely functional. "
Ma Yansong
Man
Spiritual
Reflection
" The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. "
James Gates Percival
World
Music
Waves
" Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. "
Mark Strand
Poetry
Writing
Creative
" Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. "
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Adolescence
Poetry
Preserved
" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "
Joshua Logan
Own
Music
Melody
" Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry. "
Maya Angelou
Listening
Know
Love
" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry
Mirror
Beautiful
" Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. "
William Rose Benet
Honey
Lips
Poetry
" Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. "
Sylvia Plath
Discipline
Poetry
Small
" Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. "
Norman O. Brown
Freedom
Rules
Poetry