Quotes of: Dylan Keyword

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

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

Isaac Rosenberg

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

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

John Crowe Ransom

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

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

Lisel Mueller

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

Macklemore

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Marilyn Hacker

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

Mary Oliver

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

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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 used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?

Suzi Quatro

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

Stevie Smith

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

Taslima Nasrin

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Vincent Van Gogh

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

Vikram Seth

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

Anjelica Huston