#poetry

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#crop #does #great #great things #just

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#key #lives #moments #other #out

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#did #express #fictitious #greek #heroic

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#appears #being #embedded #form #i

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#empty #into #life #make #out

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. ↗

— George Oppen

#honesty #poetry #question #simply #sincerity

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#certainly #derived #down #i #individual

The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#attractive #even #favourite #female #film

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act? ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#beauty #hard #how #just #love

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. ↗

— Reynolds Price

#fiction #find #going #got #i