Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

Mark Nepo

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.

Philip Larkin

Poetry in the soul ennobles the insignificant. Something in us does yearn for the ideal.

RT Llizo

Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.

Subhan Zein

Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable. It is not necessarily safe.

Lenore Kandel

My pond life with hydra is over; now I’m into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper..

Munia Khan

There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range

Mpho Leteng

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Karl Shapiro

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Charles Baudelaire

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

Philip Levine

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

Jacques Maritain

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

Eugenio Montale

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Khaled Hosseini

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.

John Fuller

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

Lord Alfred Douglas

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Thom Gunn

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Alfred de Vigny

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

David Whyte