Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

Wilfred Owen

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

J. Courtney Sullivan

Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!

Dona Mayoora

Your life is a poetry, it just needs some interpretation.

Debasish Mridha

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

Gustave Flaubert

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Flowers are the poetry of the earth we are supposed to love and understand.

Debasish Mridha

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Antonin Artaud

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Anatole Broyard

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Anne Stevenson

I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

Angela Sarafyan

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

Billy Collins

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Callan McAuliffe

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Charles Olson

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Carl Sandburg

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Dennis Potter

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Diane Wakoski