#poetry

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#along #art #dance #english #eventually

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. ↗

— George Sand

#delights #draws #his #life #line

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#about #closing #door #during #guess

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#biscuits #synthesis

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#myself #poetry #some #understand #written

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#go #go away #how #made #phantom

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#enough #guidance #here #needed #poems

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#girl #go #hair #i #me

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#like #people #poet #poetry #readers

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#choose #circumstances #class #creating #every