- Loved
- |
- 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
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
- America
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
- New
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
- Mother
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
- Looking
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
- Human
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
- Best
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
From the very beginning, I wanted to be the best, whether it was sports or poetry.
- Hunger
- |
- Nov 07, 2020