Poetry Quotes - page 68

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. (Thomas Lynch)
Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music. View quote
Van Wyck Brooks
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. View quote
William Rose Benet
When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things. View quote
Wyclef Jean
Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human. View quote
Yusef Komunyakaa
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. View quote
M. C. Richards
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea. View quote
Mina Loy
Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order. View quote
Phil Elverum
My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water. View quote
José Martí
The extraordinary stylistic changes of late eighteenth-century music may have provided much of the inspiration for the literature of the turn of the century, but the literary forms that resulted were deeply eccentric. It was these works-paradoxical, anticlassical, often with startlingly unbalanced proportions-which in turn influenced the music of the generation of composers that followed. The most clearly affected by literature and art were Schumann, Berlioz, and Liszt, but neither Mendelssohn nor Chopin remained untouched by literary developments, like the revival of Celtic and medieval poetry, as the overtures of Mendelssohn and the Ballades of Chopin explicitly demonstrate. View quote
Charles Rosen
Technical display in Chopin, after the early works, is transmuted into tone color or dramatic gesture-we may say, to accept the prejudices of Chopin's own generation, that it has been ennobled. This is the source of much of the poetry in Chopin's music: it comes from the transformation of the vulgar into something aristocratic. (Charles Rosen)
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot. View quote
Chris Abani
To my delight, Federico had seen Dans la ville blanche (1983) by Swiss director Alain Tanner. Enthusiastic about Bruno Ganz's performance, he also was impressed by the film's startling visual poetry of Lisbon achieved by transferring inferior film stock onto 35mm. It was exactly this kind of uncomplicated technical innovation that inspired Federico during the writing of Attore. Conceived in 1992, Attore focused on the craft and the psychology of actors. Having completed a film treatment with roles for Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, and Paolo Villagio, Fellini was now wondering if he should provide Marcello with a home movie camera to be used in a loosely Shakespearian sense that all the world's a film set. The 8mm footage of intimate memories of the theatre from his Rimini childhood would then be transferred to 35mm – a most intriguing idea that would have been a new departure for the Maestro had he lived to bring it to the screen. View quote
Damian Pettigrew
Tis in the power of Poetry to insinuate into the inmost Recesses of the Mind, to touch any Spring that moves the Heart, to agitate the Soul with any sort of Affection, and transform it into any Shape or Posture it thinks fit. View quote
Richard Blackmore
I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words. View quote
Theodore Roethke
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do. View quote
Dave Grohl
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." View quote
John Lennon
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fukin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bastrd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fukin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child. View quote
John Lennon
I conceive it is a vulgar error in translating poets, to affect being fidus interpres... [for] poetry is of so subtile a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum, there being certain graces and happinesses peculiar to every language, which give life and energy to the words... therefore if Virgil must needs speak English, it were fit he should speak not only as a man of this nation, but as [a] man of this age. (John Denham)
He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. View quote
William Hazlitt
It is strange that people should take so much interest at one time in what they so soon forget; - the truth is, they feel no interest in it [news of the day] at any time, but it does for something to talk about. Their ideas are served up to them, like their bill of fare, for the day; and the whole creation, history, war, politics, morals, poetry, metaphysics, is to them like a file of antedated newspapers, of no use, not even for reference, except the one which lies on the table! You cannot take any of these persons at a greater disadvantage than before they are provided with their cue for the day. They ask with a face of dreary vacuity, 'Have you anything new? View quote
William Hazlitt
The essence of poetry is will and passion. View quote
William Hazlitt
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski