Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

Pandemonium

Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

The Poet's Companion: A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

The Poetics of Space

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

Paper Towns

I sell black markers on the black market. I am personally responsible for 50% of all truck stop urinal poetry.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life.

When Angels Are Born

The middle finger is a great body language tool for letting people know you’re upset. Poetry isn’t quite as effective in a fit of road rage.

Xazaqazax

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

David Knopfler

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

Paul A.M. Dirac

If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

Theodore Roosevelt

Poetry is the language of the soul; Poetic Prose, the language of my heart. Each line must flow as in a song, and strike a chord that rings forever. To me, words are music!

Lori R. Lopez

the more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love.

Rumi

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

Richard Wilbur

Paranormal. It rolls off the tongue with such poetry but it means something like, beyond normal. There is nothing paranormal about magic. Magic is the norm. —Penny Sweeney Magic All Around

Marcy L. Peska

She believes poetry is 'a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships; nonfiction is a way of coming to know the world of the mind.

Nancy Bunge

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

Orson F. Whitney

I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and another on my back that says 'The Road Not Taken,' which is a poem by Robert Frost.

Steven R. McQueen

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

James Russell Lowell