Poetry Quotes - page 88

We need to see how dance, music, theater, art, poetry, are major arenas for alliance-building, especially among youth. Culture can usher in new visions. (Elizabeth Martinez)

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

Marcus du Sautoy

The history of English poetry in verse in the story of the exhaustion of the effects to be obtained from rhyme and meter of the exploitation of a mine in which the most lodes have at last given out.

F. S. Flint

There is only one art of writing, and that is the art of poetry..whether it is in the form of prose or in rhyme and meter or in rhymed cadence.

F. S. Flint

Like most inventors, Pound did not create out of the void. The "Image" he took from T.E. Hulme's table talk. The "ism" was suggested to him by the notes on contemporary French poetry which I wrote for Harold Monro's Poetry Review. The collacation of 'image' and 'ism' came to Pound after I had told him about Divoire's essays on stratégie littéraire.

F. S. Flint

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christopher Fry

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christopher Fry

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

Felix Dennis

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

Felix Dennis

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

Felix Dennis

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it. (Felix Dennis)

With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

Felix Dennis

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

Felix Dennis

The atmosphere of poetry today seems strained and unnatural. There is an attempt to force the growth of poetry.

Florence Earle Coates

Sculpture and painting are moments of life. Poetry is life itself.

Florence Earle Coates

Poetry belongs to the real things-to the realm of the ideal which is "the only real."

Florence Earle Coates

Ugliness in poetry they may find clever and interesting. But it is only beauty that "snatches the breath and fills the eyes with tears."

Florence Earle Coates

In education poetry is invaluable; the study of it cultivates the memory, the imagination, and the heart.

Florence Earle Coates

poetry, which is the voice of the soul's aspirations, has for it, of all the arts, the most natural and immediate appeal.

Florence Earle Coates

poetry in some form is necessary to all-save, perhaps, to those who are content to live upon bread alone.

Florence Earle Coates

poetry needed no renascence. It was not young, it is not old. (Florence Earle Coates)

There is no true poetry that is not dedicated to the soul and to joy.

Florence Earle Coates

there is a higher truth and a lower truth, and it is the higher truth that is the proper subject of poetry.

Florence Earle Coates

Existence has little repose, and the cultivation and love of poetry require a detached spirit and a certain amount of leisure.

Florence Earle Coates

Of all the arts poetry is the most intimate and personal.

Florence Earle Coates

Previous
1
...
87
88 (Current)
89
...
98
Next