Quotes of: Epic-poetry Keyword

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology

Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die ...

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

Have they known scorn like you Five cellars down?

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

In the world of imagination, all things belong.

The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

Beth from accounting is just sitting in her car eating spaghetti.

Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains

...everywhere I am is true.

The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto

I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

Alice Sebold

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

Mohsin Hamid

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'

Jewel

Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things

Ilyas Kassam

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

Maya Angelou

I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.

Grace Paley

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real be...

John Drinkwater

I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!'

Jill Scott

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

Laura Riding

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Paul Engle

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

Patti Smith

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

William Blake

No, she learned that true love was epic stuff, as told by Mary.

A Hopeless Romantic

Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.

Olly Murs