Poetry

Entdecke 96 inspirierende Zitate, Sprüche und Weisheiten zum Thema Poetry.

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing ot...

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Andrew Motion

Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.

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Christopher Hitchens

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candle...

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Nancy Lublin

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of...

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Edith Sitwell

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in vers...

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Robert Morgan

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

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Joseph Brodsky

I thought it would be a funny concept to publish a book about stand-up comedy with Faber, the poetry publisher, and to apply to stand-up the same sort...

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Stewart Lee

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

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Sylvia Plath

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest of the world. I'm not a poet. Nor do I try to be one. I s...

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Tammy-Louise Wilkins

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

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Seamus Heaney

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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St. Augustine

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

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Edward Hirsch

I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.

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Eileen Myles

I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that we're not alone - fo...

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Natasha Trethewey

Sometimes she wore Levi's with white-suede fringe sewn down the legs and a feathered Indian headdress, sometimes old fifties' taffeta dresses covered...

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Francesca Lia Block

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word.

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William H. Gass

Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.

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N'Zuri Za Austin

There is somethingmystically sadand beautifulabouthowi will neversee youagainbut meet youagain and againin poetry.

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Sanober Khan

Poetry was the maiden I loved but politics was the harridan I married.

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Joseph Howe