Quotes of: Charlie-brown Keyword

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

David Duchovny

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

H. L. Mencken

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Jean Cocteau

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

John Cage

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

K'naan

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Mahmoud Darwish

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Mark Strand

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Mark Strand

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

Peter Davison

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

Phoebe Snow

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Paul Valery

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

Richard Eyre

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Stephen Colbert

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Victor Hugo