Quotes of: Charlie Keyword

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Azar Nafisi

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Bob Dylan

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Carl Sandburg

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Eugenio Montale

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Eugenio Montale

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

F. Sionil Jose

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Glen Hansard

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

John Donne

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

Jack Prelutsky

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Maya Angelou

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Maya Angelou

One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.

Marilynne Robinson

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Nick Flynn

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Nathalie Sarraute

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

P. J. Soles

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

Tom Stoppard

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

Al Franken

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Arthur Symons