Poetry Is Quotes - Page 5
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.750, Simon and Schuster
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.
E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.393, Vintage
The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.
Billy Collins (2012). “The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems”, p.85, Pan Macmillan
"Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation".
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.
"Required Writing-Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982". Book by Philip Larkin, 1984.
Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.
Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.51, Wave Books
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
Hayden Carruth (2006). “Toward the Distant Islands: New & Selected Poems”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press
James Dickey, Ronald Baughman (1989). “The voiced connections of James Dickey: interviews and conversations”, Univ of South Carolina Pr
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
Elia Kazan (2009). “Kazan on Directing”, p.46, Anchor
Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.22, New Directions Publishing
Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt