Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

Of this poetry I’m left with the emptiness of an endless secret

Giuseppe Ungaretti

There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long. There is only you.

Debasish Mridha

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.

John Keating

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

John Muir

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

Andrew Bird

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

Denis O'Hare

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

Elia Kazan

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

Eminem

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

Eugenio Montale

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

George Will

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

John Ciardi

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

John Denham

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

John Ruskin

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

John Singer Sargent

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

Norman MacCaig

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Peter Davison

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Rita Dove

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Robert Frost

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

Seamus Heaney