Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Robert Morgan

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

Robert Morgan

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

Robert Morgan

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

Robert Morgan

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

Robert Morgan

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

Sherman Alexie

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Simon Armitage

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

Thomas Lynch

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

Tom Stoppard

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Tom Wesselmann

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

James Martineau

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Giorgos Seferis

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverley Nichols

I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.

Arti Honrao

Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them.

Love

Poetry?" ... "No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head.

Life

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

Malik Bendjelloul

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

Simon Schama

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

State of Fear

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

Oscar Wilde