Quotes of: Epic-poetry Keyword

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

Lawrence Summers

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

Macklemore

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

Mary Oliver

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Mark Strand

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Norman MacCaig

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

Peter Davison

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

Pauley Perrette

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

Robert Morgan

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Salvatore Quasimodo

I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?

Suzi Quatro

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

Stevie Smith

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Tom Holt

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Viggo Mortensen

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

Vikram Seth

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

Bo Burnham

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

Earl Sweatshirt

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

J. Carter Brown

Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.

Anne Sexton

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

Unarine Ramaru