Quotes of: Oscar Keyword

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Horace

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

John Ciardi

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

John Ciardi

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

John Denham

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

Lascelles Abercrombie

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

Norman MacCaig

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Octavio Paz

More modern poetry is written than read.

P. J. O'Rourke

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Rita Dove

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

Seamus Heaney

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

Seamus Heaney

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

Steve Martin

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.

Saul Williams

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

Alice Sebold

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Douglas Coupland

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

George Plimpton