Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: poetry

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

Not every gay person recites poetry or has read Keats. You can get readers through anything if the characters are complicated. You can't dismiss Josey Wales' quite liberal worldview.

I really disliked Philadelphia society - really, deeply disliked it. I spent a lot of my teenage years writing poetry attacking it.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.

Actually, I'm working on a book of poetry.

I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

Poetry is meant to be heard.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

Every single soul is a poem.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.