Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Bruce Cockburn

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Ezra Pound

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

James Gates Percival

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Rita Dove

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

Henry R. Luce

Remember: In poetry, each word is like a loaded gun; very heavy, and full of intent

Amber Drappier

Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art.

Amy Leigh Mercree

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

Alan W. Watts

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

Life

A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.

Life

When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence

Love

The sensual and spiritual are the same energy playing at different speeds, like poetry and dance" Alla Bozarth Campbell.

Life

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

William H. Gass

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.

Culpa Innata

It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.

Breathing for Two

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

Pete Waterman

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

Robin Marantz Henig

Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.

Tom Stoppard

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Tom Stoppard

It’s just another notch in the good ol’ fucked up, modern America belt.

Taint

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

Orson Pratt