Quotes of: Epic-poetry Keyword

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

Gig Young

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

Kevin McKidd

I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.

Melissa Auf der Maur

The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.

Lindsey Shaw

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Robert Morgan

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Robert Graves

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

K'naan

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Mark Strand

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

Norman MacCaig

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Salvatore Quasimodo

ASK NOT IF POETRY IS DEAD, ASK HOW YOU CAN LIVE FOR POETRY.

Amy King

The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I wanted to catch that poetry, its terse, strange beauty. Most translations...

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Helen Vendler

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

Mary Oliver

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Rick Fox

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

Taslima Nasrin

Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell