Poetry Quotes - page 65

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings. (Mattie Stepanek)
Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die. View quote
Maurice Saatchi
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script. View quote
Melanie Lynskey
Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. View quote
Michael Eric Dyson
The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. View quote
Mike Leigh
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual. View quote
Miller Williams
For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude so thoroughly that any American father whose son tells him he wants to write poetry will be embarrassed. View quote
Miller Williams
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight. View quote
Nancy Lublin
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. View quote
Norman MacCaig
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. View quote
Norman MacCaig
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. (Norman MacCaig)
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world. View quote
Naomi Shihab Nye
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem. View quote
Natasha Trethewey
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it. View quote
Natasha Trethewey
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. View quote
Nathalie Sarraute
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small. View quote
Naveen Andrews
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. View quote
Nicholson Baker
From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound. View quote
Nicholson Baker
I believe poetry has very little to do with memory. View quote
Nick Flynn
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. View quote
Peter Abrahams
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence. (Peter Davison)
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. View quote
Peter Davison
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. View quote
Peter Davison
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. View quote
Peter Davison
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world. View quote
Peter Davison