Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

Maurice Saatchi

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

Shelby Lynne

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

F. Sionil Jose

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

Cassandra Clare

If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would.

Carol Ann Duffy

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

John Keats

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Jack Kerouac

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Cheryl Hines

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

John Barton

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

Allen Ginsberg

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

Anthony Hecht

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Azar Nafisi

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Carl Sandburg

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.

David Hunt

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

Ellen Bass

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

Elizabeth Edwards

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Eugenio Montale

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Eugenio Montale

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

Frank Iero