#poetry

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#choose #college #creative #development #different

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#both #conscious #ear #head #how

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#highly #mathematics #poetry #relationship #rigorous

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#complete #contain #contains #development #drama

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#eastern #heart #learning #literature #poetry

I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#been #certainly #course #fiction #i

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy. ↗

— Henry Beston

#life

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#grow #how #life #out #poems

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. ↗

— Tom Wesselmann

#deal #few #got #i #months

Hak cihâna tolıdur kimseler Hakk’ı bilmez / Anı sen senden iste o senden ayru olmaz. ↗

— Yunus Emre

#poetry #sufism #inspirational