If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. —Jim Morrison More about this quote Tags: feeling poetry perception limits Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don’t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: poetry age joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think all people would like to feel that they’re a necessary part of life. That they’re necessary in the world, and that life would be poorer if they weren’t in it. When you accomplish something, when you write good poetry, then I think you feel that the world would be slightly different if you weren’t in it. And that, I think, is part of what being needed is about. —Kenneth Koch More about this quote Tags: life purpose meaning poetry value necessity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. —Maria Mitchell More about this quote Tags: beauty imagination poetry science mathematics logic Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing. —Charles Bukowski More about this quote Tags: poetry sex Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. —Robert A. Heinlein More about this quote Tags: poetry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry. —John Cage More about this quote Tags: silence poetry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: humor silence poetry food cheese Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is given, as earth or air, sun or moon or stars, or the dreams of man. —Cid Corman More about this quote Tags: wonder politics poetry dreams conservatism earth sun moon Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result, I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this. —George Steiner More about this quote Tags: education poetry heart memorization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. —Randall Jarrell More about this quote Tags: education poetry intellectual Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning. —John Cowper Powys More about this quote Tags: spirituality wisdom poetry mistake Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. —Plutarch More about this quote Tags: poetry art language painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes, lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream — a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows — is essentially poetry. —Michel Leiris More about this quote Tags: poetry self thoughts dream Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have spent a good many years . . . being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all. —Stephen King More about this quote Tags: talent writing poetry fiction shame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email