Poetry Is Quotes - Page 20

• Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.

  Cate Marvin

  Mind, Dramatic, Monologues

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

  Cate Marvin

  Reason, Genre, Term

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Periods, Epigrams

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.

  Cornelius Eady

  Thinking, Silence, Enemy

  "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.

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• It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

  Robin Wright

  Beauty, And Love, Hard

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• Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

  Robert Morgan

  Thinking, These Days, Enjoyment

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• Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

  John Denham

  Pouring, Spirit, Language

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.166

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• The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

  Robert Morgan

  Reading, Writing, Decision

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• Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

  Voltaire

  Soul, Feelings

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.4095, e-artnow

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• Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

  Robert Morgan

  Art, Thinking, Way

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• One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

  Robert Morgan

  Powerful, Talking, Use

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• Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

  Don Marquis

  Poetry, Saws, Blind

  Quoted in Edward Anthony, O Rare Don Marquis (1962)

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• But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

  Thomas Lynch

  Hobbies, Utterance, Way

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• The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

  Robert Morgan

  Modern, Watersheds, Modern Poetry

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• Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

  Robert Morgan

  Facts, Language, Ancient

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• The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

  Robert Morgan

  Art, Years, Ideas

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• What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

  Robert Morgan

  Impossible, Courses

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• 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.

  Michael Tippett

  Changed, Extras, Prose

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• I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Issues, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking, half dream. You listen to a poem as you might listen to someone you love who tells you their truest day. Their words might weep, joke, whirl, leap. What's unspoken in the words will still be heard. It's also the way we listen to music: You don't look for extractable meaning, but to be moved.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dream, Self, Understanding

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

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• The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.

  Russell Simmons

  Heartbeat, Soundtracks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Poetry is mostly hunches.

  John Ashbery

  Hunches

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• Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

  Kenneth Koch

  Language, Deliberate

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• Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

  Li-Young Lee

  Pages, Language, Potency

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