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Poetry Quotes (page 32)

I am committed by trade to urging people to attend carefully to the verbal surfaces of what they read. Much of the pleasure and interest of poetry depends on such attention. Stephen Greenblatt
Jacques Lacan quote: "The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the..."
The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom Jacques Lacan
The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn - so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before. Emily Giffin
this is actualy a poemwe have been callednaiveas if it were a dirty word, whe have been calledinnocentas though with shameour cheeks should burnsowe visit withthe careful idolsof cynisismto learn to sneerand pant and walkso as not to feel the scalesof judgement rub wronglybut we saysome things mustremain simplesome things must remainuntouchedand purelest we all forgetthe legacy we begot usthe health of our originsthe poetry of our fundemental selves Jewel
That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet! Terry Prachett
They will not struggle energetically against him, sometimes they will even applaud him; but they do not follow him. To his vehemence they secretly oppose their inertia, to his revolutionary tendencies their conservative interests, their homely tastes to his adventurous passions, their good sense to the flights of his genius, to his poetry their prose. With immense exertion he raises them for an instant, but they speedily escape from him and fall back, as it were, by their own weight. He... Alexis de Tocqueville
Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.” / The yellow hobbyhorse rocks to and fro, and from the chimney / Drops the Strangler! The white and pink roses are slightly agitated by the struggle, / But afterwards beside the dead “poet” they cuddle up comfortingly against their vase. They are safer now, no one will compare them to the sea. / Here on the railroad train, one more time, is the Strangler. / He is going to get that one there, who is on his way to a poetry... Kenneth Koch
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the..."
Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words. Ursula K. Le Guin
Henry David Thoreau quote: "If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be,..."
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. Henry David Thoreau
Aldous Huxley quote: "I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I..."
I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin. Aldous Huxley
Virginia Woolf quote: "Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends...."
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. --Bernard, The Waves Virginia Woolf
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. Thomas Mann
...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator. John Piper
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls. Warren Bennis
John Galsworthy quote: "Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we..."
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little. John Galsworthy

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