Quotes of: Poe Keyword

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Virginia Woolf

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Antonin Artaud

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred de Musset

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Anne Stevenson

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Anne Stevenson

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

Billy Collins

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Charles Olson

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Carl Sandburg

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Diane Wakoski

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

E. M. Forster

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

A. E. Housman

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Edward Young

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

Galway Kinnell

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

George Oppen

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Helen Vendler

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

Isaac Rosenberg

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

James Broughton

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

John Drinkwater

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

Jack Prelutsky

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

John Crowe Ransom