3 December 2020 Robert Morgan Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
3 December 2020 Jeffery Deaver But one does not make living writing poetry unless you’re a professor, and one frankly doesn’t get a lot of girls as a poet.
3 December 2020 Angela Sarafyan I’m looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.
3 December 2020 Malcolm Wilson Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I’m not saying I’ve got the answers, just a of questions that I don’t hear other artists asking.
3 December 2020 Justin Townes Earle I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn’t have to have 20 verses to get your point across.
3 December 2020 David Hunt Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
3 December 2020 Brit Marling A lot of people think, ‘I’ll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn’t work out I’ll go get a law degree, do something else that’s more practical.’ For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.
3 December 2020 Asghar Farhadi Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
3 December 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
3 December 2020 P. J. Harvey I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and… I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.
3 December 2020 David Knopfler I always liked the magic of poetry but now I’m just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they’ve used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
3 December 2020 Thomas Mann Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
3 December 2020 Diane Wakoski American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
3 December 2020 Alfred Douglas All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
3 December 2020 Trevor Dunn I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.
3 December 2020 Peter Davison Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
3 December 2020 Mark Strand Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
3 December 2020 Diane Wakoski PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.
3 December 2020 John Masefield Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
3 December 2020 Henry R. Luce There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
3 December 2020 Allen Ginsberg I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
