Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

Felix Dennis

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

Goldwin Smith

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

John Ashbery

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Wislawa Szymborska

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

Gary Oldman

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

Charles Baudelaire

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

D.A. Botta

Art is a reflection of poetry and beauty of the heart and mind without the use of any words.

Debasish Mridha

Christian: We were off to the Moulin Rouge and I was to perform my poetry for Satine.

Moulin Rouge!

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

John Ruskin

Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.

Aimee Bender

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Amy Clampitt

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Alice Eve

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Allen Ginsberg

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Annie Lennox

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

Allen Tate

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Boris Pasternak

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Carol Ann Duffy

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Carol Ann Duffy

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Chang-Rae Lee

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

Dave Grohl