The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
I can weave words together and create magic,it's like knitting and crocheting words with pen and paper, some call it Poetry.
Every flower has a poetry of love in her heart, every tree has a story of struggle in his mind.
Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.
PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.
Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.
I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.
Poetry is – raw feelings as sunny summer, fiery turmoil as vibrant autumn, daunting revelation as stormy winter, intrepid hope as blooming spring.
Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem.
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, the world would be a little better place to live.
Nobody: That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written with blood.
Tracy Lord: These stories are beautiful. Why, Mike, they're almost poetry. Macaulay Connor: Don't kid yourself, they are.
I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night without sleeping, and the next day the world had changed. It needed a different language.
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
