Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

Baby

poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought

Brisees

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

Collected Poems, 1909-1962

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

Lascelles Abercrombie

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

Rafael Moneo

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Rita Dove

I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.

Will Cuppy

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

John F. Kerry

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.

David Whyte

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

Felix Dennis

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Laura Riding

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

Philippe Petit

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Robert Morgan

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.

Robert Pinsky

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.

Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

A Room of One's Own

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

The Magus

Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

The Magus

If you try you would never be alone; because the whole world is tired of loneliness.

A moment with God ; Poetry

They were drinking, laughing and dancing, but I was sitting alone in the corner and talking to your soul.

A moment with God ; Poetry

We are very much in love; when I call her angel, she calls me demon.

A moment with God ; Poetry