#poetry

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#connection #didactic #even #exist #great

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#images #like #people #poetry #some

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#also #because #choice #culture #days

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#america #attention #i #i see #paying

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. ↗

— David Hockney

#poetry #teach #well #you

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beauty #been #between #discriminate #discussions

I write poetry in order to live more fully. ↗

— Judith Rodriguez

#i #i write #live #more #order

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. ↗

— Laura Riding

#brings #cannot #consciousness #degree #experience

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #especially #everyone #experiences #good

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#good #i #lots #poetry #read