Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

[after hearing "The Introduction to Poetry"] John Keating: Excrement! That's what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard! We're not laying pipe! We're talking about poetry. How can you describe poetry like American Bandstand? "I like Byron, I give him a 4...

Dead Poets Society

If freedom isn't worth dying for, then...what is it really worth?

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Injustice against some...is injustice against all!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Changing One's Mind...Can Help Change Humanity!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

For success is for the ignorant That is what makes it original

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

Matsuo Basho

Poetry is an act of love. Without love life is impossible. Without poetry love has no exuberance.

Debasish Mridha

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

Asghar Farhadi

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

David Whyte

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Robert Morgan

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

Robert Morgan

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

Robert Morgan

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Robert W. Service

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Story Musgrave

. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.

Life

Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.

How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation

One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history

A History of Modern Iran

Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.

Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife

Behavioral science is not for sissies.

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom