Poetry Quotes - page 64

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young. (Lady Gregory)
Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught. View quote
Leslie Feinberg
When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner. View quote
Lisel Mueller
The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry. View quote
Louis Dudek
The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last. View quote
Louise Gluck
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. View quote
Lynda Barry
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. View quote
Laura Marling
For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad. View quote
Lemon Andersen
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. View quote
Macklemore
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed. View quote
Brian Harris
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere. (Caitriona Balfe)
Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work. View quote
Clifford Ross
I play guitar; you'll find me at home strumming 'Vincent' on the guitar. I also read a lot of poetry, and Shakespeare was my first love, which was why I got into acting. A lot of the fighters are intelligent! View quote
Dave Legeno
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. View quote
Guy Johnson
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. View quote
George Murray
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige. View quote
George Murray
The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming. View quote
George Murray
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too. View quote
George Murray
Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction. View quote
George Murray
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. View quote
John Barton
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.' (John Drane)
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. View quote
Josh Logan
I read mostly poetry. View quote
Joshua Sasse
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others. View quote
Mary Karr
I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet. View quote
Matt de la Pena