I dream of being able to organise an international poetry festival in Algeria.
Poetry Quotes
Alexander Pope leads, followed by Florence Earle Coates, Muriel Rukeyser and Horace. Samuel Johnson’s definition in Lives of the English Poets (1779), poetry as the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason, is the best-sourced entry, and Thoreau’s couplet from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) is the saddest: his life was the poem he would have written, but he could not both live it and utter it.
Flagged: “All poetry is misrepresentation,” credited to Jeremy Bentham and disputed; a triplet on three poets from three distant ages, credited to Dryden and disputed; and “The crown of literature is poetry,” credited to Somerset Maugham and marked misattributed.
Poetry is not only about words, it is also about the body, the voice, the space and the other.
Poetry is the one of the purest forms of conversation there is.
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.
'Crap,' said Janet. 'He was a whinger and he wrote it down. That's not poetry.'
Had enough of my poetry yet? That’s why they pay me to fight demons instead.
Sculpture and painting are moments of life. Poetry is life itself.
My parents taught me to read. My father taught me poetry as early as primary 2.