#poetry

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#poetry #poets #puberty #reach #stop

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#begins #dance #departs #far #gets

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#barber #dummy #poetry #real #real art

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

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#faulkner #his #i #like #poetry

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#forever #joy #little #poetry #pound

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#i love #i write #love #poetry #time

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#actor #always #amount #because #certain

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#feel #make #office #poetry #think

Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver, for he was the type who would never enjoy hot-air balloons, Van Morrison songs, or mess, whether from orgasm or otherwise. But who was she to be dreaming about mess today? ↗

— Andrea Kayne Kaufman

#music #ocd #oxford #poetry #redemptive