- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry Quotes
On verse, beauty, and the search to define art.
This set opens with the case for teaching children poetry early, since it broadens young minds and passes on virtue almost by inheritance, then weighs how differently prose and poetry can each carry weight. See Art quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Money
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true.
- Perfect
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
God is the perfect poet.
- Culture
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.
- Say
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.
- New
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of writing a song. I just knew the feeling, and I knew it was supposed to break and change at the same part, so that's how I write music.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
- Filtered
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
- Quiet
- |
- Nov 07, 2020