Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

Robert Morgan

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Salvatore Quasimodo

I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?

Suzi Quatro

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

Stevie Smith

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Tom Holt

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Viggo Mortensen

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

Vikram Seth

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

Bo Burnham

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

Earl Sweatshirt

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

J. Carter Brown

Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.

Anne Sexton

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

Unarine Ramaru

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

Minaret

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

Michael Palin

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

Peter Gay

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Robert Frost

Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.

King Albert II

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

Morarji Desai

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Mary McCarthy