Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

Writing poetry was not my thing, for you my love every bit of my heart had to sing.

Mookhatchka Khalid

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The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Muriel Rukeyser

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

Mark Twain

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

Laura Riding

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

Roberto Benigni

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

T. S. Eliot

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

Mary Gordon

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

Andrew Motion

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Michael Sheen

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Brooks Atkinson

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

John Keats

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Diane Wakoski

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

Edwin Morgan

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

Nikki Giovanni

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

Peter Davison

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

Pink

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

Jeffery Deaver

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

Jhene Aiko