Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

Jose Andres Puerta

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Clint Eastwood

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Modern Society has turned blind; considering patience as cowardliness.

Srinivas Shenoy

I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love

The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941

Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit a certain academic styles and standards, then it is not poetry. Poetry should relate to the man on the street who has to work for...

Harley King

Anita Miller: It's unfair that we can't listen to our music! Elaine Miller: That's because it's music about drugs and promiscuous sex. Anita Miller: Simon and Garfunkel is poetry! Elaine Miller: Yes it's poetry. It's poetry of drugs and promiscuous s...

Almost Famous

One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.

A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind: A History

If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination - it is also its business to encourage politics to remake itself by remaking its image...

Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-Modern

I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound lik...

Mayim Bialik

During life's crisis...try to worry less and smile more.

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

If you're not part of the solution...then you're part of the problem. Don't be part of the problem!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

In Every Aspect Of Your Life, Be Amazing...Be You!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Abuse...Injustice....Hate...Racism...Are all the same! They're all WRONG!✌

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Live your life... No mater where you live it :)

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Better poetry than riches, Better poverty than fortunes.

Mythopia: Poetry

A poem needs as well as of content.

Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Adrian Mitchell

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.

Blake Jenner

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

Carol Ann Duffy

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Diane Wakoski