Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. Gustave Flaubert French Novelist More Gustave Flaubert Quotes 10
Personality is everything in art and poetry. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes 6
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Virginia Woolf British Author More Virginia Woolf Quotes 4
My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time. Herschel Walker American Athlete More Herschel Walker Quotes 1
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Khalil Gibran Poet More Khalil Gibran Quotes 1
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. A. R. Ammons American Poet More A. R. Ammons Quotes 1
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. Lewis Thomas English Scientist More Lewis Thomas Quotes 1
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. Amy Clampitt American Poet More Amy Clampitt Quotes 1
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry. Laurie Lee English Poet More Laurie Lee Quotes 1
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel More Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes 1
I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. Amanda Seyfried American Actress More Amanda Seyfried Quotes 1
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis American Poet More Don Marquis Quotes 1
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors. Thomas Babington Macaulay English Historian More Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes 1
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas Babington Macaulay English Historian More Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes 0
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann German Novelist More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife. Thomas Babington Macaulay English Historian More Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes 0
By 2000, he had embarked on an ambitious series of figure paintings, usually captioned with an aphorism from poetry or philosophy, and charged with stark physical and metaphysical deliberations. William Peterson More William Peterson Quotes 0
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. William Rose Benet More William Rose Benet Quotes 0
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. William Cullen Bryant American Writer More William Cullen Bryant Quotes 0
Art and music are an integral part of learning. You can't study English literature and poetry without learning a Shakespeare sonnet. William Ferguson More William Ferguson Quotes 0
The crown of literature is poetry. William Somerset Maugham English Writer More William Somerset Maugham Quotes 0