Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

Viggo Mortensen

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

William Gaddis

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Anne Stevenson

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Caroline Kennedy

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

David Duchovny

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

David Whyte

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Diane Wakoski

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

H. L. Mencken

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

John Barton

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

John Barton

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

John Barton

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