Poetry Quotes - page 75

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. (Khaled Hosseini)
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem. View quote
Maxine Hong Kingston
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of theunknown and the unknowable. View quote
Carl Sandburg
POETRY A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky. View quote
Carl Sandburg
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. View quote
Maya Angelou
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. View quote
Maya Angelou
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing. View quote
Maya Angelou
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. (Maya Angelou)
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. View quote
Maya Angelou
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. View quote
Maya Angelou
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. View quote
Maya Angelou
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. View quote
Maya Angelou
People aren't used to poetry that's so easy and simple. View quote
Rupi Kaur
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning. View quote
Stanley Kunitz
Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember. View quote
Stanley Kunitz
Woz and I very much liked Bob Dylan's poetry, and we spent a lot of time thinking about a lot of that stuff. View quote
Steve Jobs
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. View quote
Cesare Pavese
All intelligent persons also possess some larger-scale frame-systems whose members seemed at first impossibly different - like water with electricity, or poetry with music. Yet many such analogies - along with the knowledge of how to apply them - are among our most powerful tools of thought. (Marvin Minsky)
I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. View quote
Joni Mitchell
Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different! View quote
Alan Moore
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. View quote
Paul Muldoon
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. View quote
Paul Muldoon