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One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of wor... EDWARD HIRSCH Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
W.S. MERWIN
I do not know much about gods;but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and i... T.S. ELIOT
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth JOSEPH JOUBERT
Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life. MATTHEW ARNOLD
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
ABERJHANI
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. ROBERT FITZGERALD
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. VINCENT VAN GOGH There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
GYORGY LIGETI
To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I l... LUCY LARCOM We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things fro...
NAOMI KLEIN
One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry... MARILYNNE ROBINSON
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY
To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of t... ARCHIBALD MACLEISH It's a very different disaster. We are looking at a much higher number of refugees. And they face ob...
ERIC BLOCK
Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. SYLVIA PLATH Overall, it's a very good budget, especially looking at his proposal for teacher recruitment and ret...
WAYNE BLANTON Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had th...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Creative forms is really where it's at for contemporary poetry. JAMES DYE
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. RITA DOVE I believe
in love at first sight
but I will always believe
that the people
we l...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON Poetry is the kind of thing you have to see from the corner of your eye. You can be too well prepare...
WILLIAM STAFFORD It's originally a mathematical term, ... Something that veers off the line is eccentric, not concent...
CRISPIN GLOVER
To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodime... JOSEPH BRODSKY Things will be very uncertain on Monday as we are looking at two very different scenarios.
EDGAR GONZALEZ
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. DENNIS GABOR
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a searc... CARL SANDBURG Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poe...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO
Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
P...
KAMAND KOJOURI I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the sa...
ALTON BROWN It is very difficult to prevent violence at a protest where a huge number of people are gathered, es...
AJIRAWID SUBARNBHESAJ
I’ve got magic. I’ve got poetry at my fingertips. CHARLIE SHEEN Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
JOSHUA LOGAN Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages.
VANESSA M CHATTMAN At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex ...
TOBIAS HILL
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. DAVID HARE Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close t...
ETEL ADNAN
It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. JOHN SINGER SARGENT Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of respo...
J.M. COETZEE
For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-k... ROBERT PINSKY
I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorde... ANNA AKHMATOVA
You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of ... CHRIS CORNELL
It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me.
PABLO NERUDA Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture...
GODFREY HOUNSFIELD
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. SIMONIDES
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech SIMONIDES
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in... WALLACE STEVENS I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones,...
ROBERT BRINGHURST
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? JOYCE CAROL OATES
Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting. SIMONIDES They had different ways of looking at things but needed a universal way.
BRENDA DUNN
What you are good at, you never do it free! DEYTH BANGER
Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island th... ROMESH GUNESEKERA
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. PLUTARCH
Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meani... BRYANT MCGILL There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.
ALI SMITH
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality RICHARD DAWKINS
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. GERTRUDE STEIN Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
LISEL MUELLER
Poetry and prayer are very similar. CAROL ANN DUFFY
He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except d... ANN AGUIRRE
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. MUHAMMAD IQBAL
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a differe... BILLY COLLINS Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a differe...
WILLIAM COLLINS There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier...
ROBERT ADAMSON Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
AMY CLAMPITT
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poet... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Painting is poetry in pictures as music is poetry in notes.
LEAH DANCEL
Only poetry inspires poetry. RALPH WALDO EMERSON There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poe...
ANTHONY HECHT A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and sho...
CLAUDIA RANKINE Traditional information security has been very good at protecting structured data.
GENE FREDRIKSEN
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be qui... SHELBY FOOTE
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. MUHAMMAD IQBAL
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, wha...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL
Money is a kind of poetry. WALLACE STEVENS Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
PAUL CELAN
Is that it?”“No. That’s a wall.”
“It could be disguised.”
“You’re no...
DEREK LANDY Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly ...
TERRANCE HAYES
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. MATTHEW ARNOLD
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things MATTHEW ARNOLD (Earl) has a number of benefit provisions that are different from what we have in any other contract...
MARK CONRAD Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot...
ASGHAR FARHADI Doing interviews about my films really bothers me sometimes, because I have to speak directly and cl...
ASGHAR FARHADI It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that...
ASGHAR FARHADI The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second inci...
ASGHAR FARHADI We have the wrong impression of life. We think the very big incidents of our lives are consequences ...
ASGHAR FARHADI I lived in Paris for two years with my family. I would roam the streets of Paris during the day for ...
ASGHAR FARHADI I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a mes...
ASGHAR FARHADI There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction mak...
ASGHAR FARHADI Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be vi...
ASGHAR FARHADI When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues...
ASGHAR FARHADI I feel that it means a lot to the people of Iran that my film is represented at the Oscars, and it m...
ASGHAR FARHADI If you give an answer to your viewer, your film will simply finish in the movie theatre. But when yo...
ASGHAR FARHADI During all of my writing career - this includes when I was writing plays and my other screenplays - ...
ASGHAR FARHADI Unless you're trying to make a movie on the sly, there's no way to get around this. If you w...
ASGHAR FARHADI I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and expl...
ASGHAR FARHADI
...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...
BILLY COLLINS There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My ear...
ROBERT ADAMSON
