Poetry Quotes

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

Seamus Heaney

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

Seamus Heaney

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

Seamus Heaney

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

Seamus Heaney

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Seamus Heaney

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

Seamus Heaney

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

Seamus Heaney

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Sophie Hannah

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

Shane Koyczan

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiousl...

Sidney Lanier

I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.

Stephen Lang

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

N. Scott Momaday

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

Samantha Morton

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

Samantha Morton

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Stephane Mallarme

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

Steve Martin

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Story Musgrave

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Story Musgrave

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

Sally Phillips