Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

E. M. Forster

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

A. E. Housman

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

Ed Westwick

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Edward Young

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

Galway Kinnell

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

George Oppen

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

Isaac Rosenberg

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

James Broughton

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

John Drinkwater

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

Jack Prelutsky

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Joseph Roux

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

John Millington Synge

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

Lynn Johnston

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

Lisel Mueller

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

Lawrence Summers

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

Macklemore

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

Mary Oliver

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Mark Strand

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Norman MacCaig

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

Peter Davison

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

Pauley Perrette