"Why should poetry have to make sense?"

Poetry, Sense

30

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Poetry quotes

"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."

Nathalie Sarraute, Russian Lawyer

Poetry, People

"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Poetry, Life, Language, Expression

"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."

George Murray, Canadian Poet

Poetry, Fiction, Writing

"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Poetry, Perspective, Optimism, Art

"Always learn poems by heart, ' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay."

Janet Fitch, American Author

Poetry, Learning, Memory, Emotion

"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Poetry,

"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Poetry, Imagination, Words, Emotion

"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet

Poetry, Spirit

"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."

Joseph Brodsky, American Poet

Poetry, Life, Production

"My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Poetry, Soul, Beauty, Inspirational

Explore more quotes by Charlie Chaplin

"The glamour of it all! New York! America!"

Glamour

"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."

Career

"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it."

World

"I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth."

Art

"Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage."

Movies

"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."

Men

"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."

Character

"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."

Beauty

"To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!"

Pain

"Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'."

Word