Quotes of: Chaplin Keyword

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred de Musset

I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

Angela Sarafyan

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

Billy Collins

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Callan McAuliffe

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Charles Olson

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Carl Sandburg

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

E. M. Forster

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

Galway Kinnell

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

Jack Prelutsky

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

John Millington Synge

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Mark Strand

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Michael Tippett

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

Peter Davison

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

Pauley Perrette

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Rick Fox

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Salvatore Quasimodo

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

Taslima Nasrin