#poetry

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. ↗

— David Duchovny

#i #myself #poet #poetry #still

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#could #happen #i #i wonder #make

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#poetry #preserved #thus

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#breathe #burn #thoughts #words

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#mysterious #poetry #relationship #slightly #wonder

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#excitement #important #important ways #intrudes #over

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#aims #anything #deliver #feel #limited

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#chords #compared #conversation #love #may

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#career #colin #evenings #fun #hopefully

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#me #nobody #poetry #put #read