Poetry

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

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

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John Donne

I am lover of words... I am wickedly drunk with the magic of words... The poetic nature whispers through and to my very heart and soul.

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Jennifer Hillman

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

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Dorianne Laux

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

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W.S. Merwin

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphori...

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J.M. Coetzee

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

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Jewel

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

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Walter Scott

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for anothe...

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Dorianne Laux

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

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Umberto Eco

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

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Helen Keller

I have the feeling when I write poetry that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame you ju...

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Doris Lund

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

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J. Michael Straczynski

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

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Dennis Gabor

For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read...

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Rupi Kaur

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway...

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Billy Collins

She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again. Ink splattered across the page. And within those scratched words, those small,...

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Hubert Martin

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

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Raymond Chandler

I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.

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Henry David Thoreau

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

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Vikram Seth

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poet...

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Umberto Eco