Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting.

The Map of Love

Poetry is born of a lack of love, born of a crazy and impossible passion...

Small Portion: a little taste of poetry

The Scorpion? The Grasshopper? Which way will she go?

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

Trees allow their old leaves to fall so they can then blossom.

Visions II: The Poetry of Life

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

Ellen Hopkins

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

Natasha Trethewey

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Sarah Kay

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.

Corin Nemec

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

David Antin

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Leonard Cohen

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

Peleg Top

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

Jordin Sparks

ERIC: What are you always writin' in that book anyway? RODNEY: Poetry. TYRONE: Poetry? Rodney stops sketching and sentimentally flips through a few dozen pages of sketches and handwritten poems and notes. RODNEY: Poetry and pictures. Snapshots of our...

Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is ...

The Poems Of Wilfred Owen

while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find; The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;

The Modern Man: A philosophical divagation about the evil banality of daily acts

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

The Great War and Modern Memory

The first key to leadership is self-control.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.

Robert Gottlieb