Quotes of: Epic-poetry Keyword

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

Robert Adamson

I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

Mae Whitman

Growing rice gives you more than poetry will.

Japanese

For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bri...

Robert Pinsky

[after hearing "The Introduction to Poetry"] John Keating: Excrement! That's what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard! We're not laying pipe! We're talking about poetry. How can you describe poetry like American Bandstand? "I like Byron, I give him a 4...

Dead Poets Society

If freedom isn't worth dying for, then...what is it really worth?

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Injustice against some...is injustice against all!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Changing One's Mind...Can Help Change Humanity!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

For success is for the ignorant That is what makes it original

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

Matsuo Basho

Poetry is an act of love. Without love life is impossible. Without poetry love has no exuberance.

Debasish Mridha

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

Asghar Farhadi

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

David Whyte

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Robert Morgan

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

Robert Morgan

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

Robert Morgan

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Robert W. Service

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Story Musgrave

. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.

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