Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Norman Vincent Peale

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

Pierre Corneille

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Richard Dawkins

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Toni Morrison

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Voltaire

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Anthony Hope

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

Allen Tate

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Barry Eisler

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

David Antin

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Diane Wakoski

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

A. E. Housman

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Howard Nemerov

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

Ivan Turgenev

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Jeffery Deaver

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

James Fenton

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

John Masefield

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

Joyce Carol Oates

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

Jack Prelutsky

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

J. K. Rowling