"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose."

Poetry, Past, Prose

22

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose."

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 Peter Davison

"And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet."

Poetry

"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."

Poems

"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."

Poet

"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."

Culture

"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."

Poet

"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."

Hearing

"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."

Poems

"I like poems that are complex."

Poems

"I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry."

Poetry

"Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such."

Nature