Quotes of: Dylan Keyword

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

Lucinda Williams

'Vogue' has the power to make and break - whether it's fashion trends, designers, models, and yes, even industry practices.

Tyra Banks

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Adrian Mitchell

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.

Andrew Motion

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Anne Stevenson

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Bertrand Russell

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Chris Abani

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Carol Ann Duffy

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

Caroline Kennedy

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Carl Sandburg

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

Carl Sandburg

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

C. K. Williams

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Danielle Steel

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Diane Wakoski

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Emily Dickinson

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

E. M. Forster

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.

Franz Wright

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

Grace Paley