The sky is not the limit
There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.
Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.
Neither is necessarily a better or more valuable oarsman than the other; both the long arms and the strong back are assets to the boat. But if they are to row well together, each of these oarsmen must adjust to the needs and capabilities of the other...
He stood and looked at me for a moment, taking in my outfit. "You look hot." "What? Me?" I stammered, completely flummoxed. "Yeah," he said, still looking at me. "Oh. Um, thank you. I mean, not that you don’t, but I’m not sure that you should—I...
So it's a strife here, in a way, between position—between the CEO and the top salesman; between the principal and the best teacher; between Miller Huggins, the manager, and Babe Ruth, the best baseball player who ever lived; between the person who ...
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
More modern poetry is written than read.
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we can't see it or feel it, it is there, shaping how we hear.
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana...
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. An...
'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.
Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.
