Quotations
Quotes:
In response to a critic who asked:
'That looks like prose not poetry, what's your distinction?'
William said:
'It's poetry because I say it's poetry.'
View quotes by William Carlos Williams
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people
View quotes by Adrian Mitchell
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money
View quotes by Robert Graves
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
View quotes by David Hare
'Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others.'
View quotes by Bryant McGill
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
View quotes by Aristotle
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
View quotes by Leonard Cohen
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. [Maybe that explains the lack of decent poetry in recent years then!]
View quotes by Phyllis Gotlieb
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals.
View quotes by Donald Trump
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
View quotes by John Lennon
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
View quotes by Johnny Depp
Money is a kind of poetry.
View quotes by Wallace Stevens
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The poetry is in the pity.
View quotes by Wilfred Owen
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry
View quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
View quotes by Allen Ginsberg
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
View quotes by Marianne Moore
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes)
View quotes by Isaac Barrow
As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines (Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review 1843)
View quotes by Thomas Babington
I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry (Lecture on nothing, 1961)
View quotes by John Cage
The Sitwells belong to the history of publicity rather than of poetry.
View quotes by F R Leavis
