Captivating Poetry Quotes: Inspiring Words That Stir the Soul - Page 32

That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means.

Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things... -Gertrude Stein

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Discovering the context

This quote provides a simplistic definition of poetry, stating that it involves the use of a rhyming dictionary for constructing poetic verses and an observance of the things perceived or witnessed in the world, indicating a focus on wordplay and attentive observation.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

Discovering the context

This quote humorously expresses a sense of uncertainty or ambiguity regarding the purpose or significance of poetry, suggesting that while the speaker recognizes its indispensability, they are unsure about the specific reasons or impact of poetry in their own life.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. ... -Gulzar

Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.

Discovering the context

This quote distinguishes between lyrics, which the speaker considers their professional work created by request, and poetry, which they view as a personal expression of their own thoughts and experiences, indicating a deeper significance attributed to poetry.

When you write poetry you are always addressing th... -John Cooper Clarke

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

Discovering the context

This quote highlights the inherent communicative aspect of poetry, suggesting that through the act of writing poetry, the poet is engaged in a form of dialogue or expression directed towards the larger world, seeking to convey their thoughts, emotions, or perspectives.

You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a family of poets.

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts.

I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If the world is safe for poetry, it can be safe for many other things.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Discovering the context

This quote emphasizes the inherent figurative nature of language, suggesting that slang expressions, like metaphorical language, possess a poetic quality, implying that poetry can be found not only in formal verse but also in everyday language usage.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Discovering the context

This quote personifies nature as having its own poetic essence, suggesting that the beauty, harmony, and wonder of the natural world continue to inspire and evoke a sense of poetic appreciation, reinforcing the timeless and enduring presence of nature's poetic qualities.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

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.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as s... -James Broughton

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

Discovering the context

This quote draws a parallel between the experience of poetry and the intense pleasure or spiritual connection derived from sexual ecstasy, indicating that the act of writing or engaging with poetry holds deep significance and fulfillment for the speaker.

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going... -James Schuyler

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

Discovering the context

This quote reflects a self-deprecating or dismissive attitude toward the particular instance of poetry being discussed, implying that the speaker feels incapable or uninterested in producing similar work.

Captivating Poetry Quotes: Inspiring Words That Stir the Soul - Page 32

Popular Topic