Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

Abraham Verghese

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Daniel Radcliffe

If language had been the creation, not of poetry, but of logic, we should only have one.

Friedrich Hebbel

The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.

Himmilicious

There are two kinds of love. One kind you live with, the other you write poetry about.

Debasish Mridha

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry. So be passionate and write a great story.

Debasish Mridha

You're my story, you're my poetry, you're my flower you're my deep driving desire.

Debasish Mridha

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Anthony Hope

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Adrienne Rich

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

Allen Tate

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Barry Eisler

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Charles Baudelaire

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

Chrisette Michele

I was actually a poetry major in college before I punted and decided to become a theater major. I wrote the poem that we put on the sauerkraut boxes in the style of Elling.

Denis O'Hare

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Diane Wakoski

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

A. E. Housman

Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.

Edwin Morgan

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Howard Nemerov

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Jeffery Deaver