Quotes of: Poe Keyword

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

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

Lisel Mueller

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Marilyn Hacker

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

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

Pauley Perrette

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Stevie Smith

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

Taslima Nasrin

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

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

Frederick the Great

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

George Orwell

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Havelock Ellis

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Israel Zangwill

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

John Eldredge