Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

J. G. Stedman

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

The Mill on the Floss

Your beauty questions the beauty of nature.

A moment with God ; Poetry

the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation

Swann's Way

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Orlando

Talk to me in poetry. / It is all I understand.

Passionate Intensity

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

Natasha Trethewey

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Philip Larkin

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

Michael Bassey Johnson

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

Rumi

Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

James Fenton

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Ishmael Reed

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

Felix Dennis

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

Mahmoud Darwish

Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

Orson F. Whitney

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Robert Morgan

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Joseph Brodsky

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Jean Giraudoux

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

William Rose Benet