Quotes of: Epic-poetry Keyword

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Simon Callow

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Stephen Colbert

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

Steve Earle

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

Seamus Heaney

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Shane Koyczan

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Victor Hugo

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

Vanessa Redgrave

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

Life

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Vincent Van Gogh

IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels. V   If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than ...

The Complete Poetry and Prose

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that y...

The Gary Snyder Reader, Volume 1: Prose, Poetry and Translations 1952-1998

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and ...

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

Time does not heal all wounds. Never does and never will...it only strengthens the muscles of our heart to make us stronger but in truth the memories of those who passed through our lives shall always be with us until we meet again...giving us both j...

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

All the same, we ought to point out that if the kinds of poetry and representation which are designed merely to give pleasure can come up with a rational argument for their inclusion in a well-governed community, we'd be delighted -- short of comprom...

The Republic

Poetry can be more eloquent than the most eloquent sermons, and it becomes a weapon more formidable than the sharpest of swords; whenever such a poem--which finds its correct tune and conveys the excitement of the heart--rings out, all the miserable,...

Speech and Power of Expression: On Language, Esthetics, and Belief

I, too, head for the Baths of Caracalla, thinking—with my old, magnificent privilege of thinking… (And let there still be a god in me that thinks, lost, weak, and childish, yet whose voice is so human it is almost a song.) Oh, to leave this priso...

Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, The: A Bilingual Edition

I like pros, especially when it comes to tennis and rent boys” — and here I’m really wondering if the pun on prose consolidates Bruce’s feeling toward it versus poetry under the sign of sex, which Bruce sometimes pays for, in order to direct ...

Mature Themes

Having this, we want that. Owning some, we want more. Standing here, we wish to be there. If it's impossible, we struggle to make it happen. Why are we like this? Why not be content with some, here, and now? Why is enough not enough? Because humans a...

Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said; “tout aboutit en un livre,” everything ends up in a book. The Greeks speak of generati...

Seven Nights

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our ma...

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of...

The Picture of Dorian Gray