3 December 2020 Eugenio Montale There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
3 December 2020 Jenny Eclair I was trained as an actress. But I wasn’t a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
3 December 2020 John Drinkwater But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
3 December 2020 A. E. Housman If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
3 December 2020 Lascelles Abercrombie With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
3 December 2020 Arnold Palmer What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
3 December 2020 Jason Newsted It all has to do with art – writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry – things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.
3 December 2020 Archibald MacLeish Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man’s life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
3 December 2020 Christina Perri I was kind of an outcast in school ’cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn’t know what to make of me.
3 December 2020 Emily Dickinson There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
3 December 2020 Thurston Moore Most people can’t tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can’t be related to other forms of historical poetry.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
3 December 2020 Wislawa Szymborska Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That’s what writing is all about.
3 December 2020 Philip Levine My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
3 December 2020 Vanessa Redgrave Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
3 December 2020 George Sand He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
3 December 2020 Anne Stevenson I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life – though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
3 December 2020 A. R. Ammons Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
3 December 2020 Robert Creeley That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
3 December 2020 J. Courtney Sullivan Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
3 December 2020 Peter Steele It’s bad poetry executed by people that can’t sing. That’s my definition of Rap.
