Quotes of: Poe Keyword

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

K'naan

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Mahmoud Darwish

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Mark Strand

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Mark Strand

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

Norman MacCaig

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Oscar Wilde

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Philip Levine

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Paul Valery

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

Robert Morgan

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Stephen Colbert

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

Seamus Heaney

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Shane Koyczan

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Victor Hugo

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Christopher Hitchens