Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: poetry

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

There are Behan experts in international universities, but we seem to have forgotten him here in Ireland. He was an extraordinarily gifted writer. His poetry alone is outstanding.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

I didn't start writing songs, honestly, until I started making my album. I was always doing poetry, but I never thought I could write songs. I discouraged myself and thought it was so hard. But starting this process and learning just what it is to be a songwriter and performer taught me that you don't have to feel discouraged about anything.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess, racial injustice. It gives expression not just to our rites but also to our problems and even our values; these poems are not about rustic vacations.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.

Poetry is - it's an art form, but, to me, it's also a weapon, it's also an instrument. It's the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that's a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.

I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that have far too long been in the darkness.

The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.

One: whose shoulders do you stand on? And two: what do you stand for? These are two questions that I always begin my poetry workshops with students because at times, poetry can seem like this dead art form for old white men who just seem like they were born to be old, like, you know, Benjamin Button or something.

Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it's this openness, this accessibility of poetry that makes it the language of people.

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges.

I was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.

In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.

There is a great deal of freshness and charm in '400 Blows.' There is also a great deal of visual poetry in the way in which Truffaut's camera looks at his beloved city.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

I started writing poetry when I was 12 years old and also undertook vocal training since a young age. However, it was only during my time at the University of Oxford did the musician in me came alive.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.