Quotes of: Poe Keyword

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

Elia Kazan

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

Eugenio Montale

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Eugenio Montale

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Howard Nemerov

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

Horace

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

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

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

John Ruskin

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

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

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Allen Tate

In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.

Amish Tripathi