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
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 2
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Khalil Gibran Poet More Khalil Gibran 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
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
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. Walter Jon Williams American Writer More Walter Jon Williams 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
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
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
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Poet More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes 1
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost American Poet More Robert Frost 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
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
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel More Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes 0
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. Helen Thomas American Journalist More Helen Thomas Quotes 0
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. Gordon Getty American Businessman More Gordon Getty Quotes 0
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Virginia Woolf British Author More Virginia Woolf Quotes 0
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. Rick Springfield American Musician More Rick Springfield Quotes 0
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. Edmund C. Stedman More Edmund C. Stedman Quotes 0