Цитаты на тему: Poetry

“ Personality is everything in art and poetry. ”

“ I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. ”

“ What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ”

“ Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future. ”

“ Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. ”

“ Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference. ”

“ The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. ”

“ Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult. ”

“ Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. ”

“ I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. ”

“ Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ”

“ With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. ”

“ Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. ”

“ Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. ”

“ I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. ”

“ For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude so thoroughly that any American father whose son tells him he wants to write poetry will be embarrassed. ”

“ I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. ”

“ Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. ”

“ Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me. ”

“ When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences. ”