Quotes of: Roberts Keyword

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

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Dennis Potter

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

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

Isaac Rosenberg

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

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

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 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