Top 1200 Good Poetry Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Painting is silent poetry.

The Masters is poetry to me.

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

Slogan-making is not poetry.

I read mostly poetry.

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

There are no borders in poetry and language.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

Poetry to me is prayer.

Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

You speak As one who fed on poetry.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just such a turn? And since the strange, the abyss and Medusa’s head, the abyss and the automaton, all seem to lie in the same direction—is it perhaps this turn, this Atemwende, which can sort out the strange from the strange? It is perhaps here, in this one brief moment, that Medusa’s head shrivels and the automaton runs down? Perhaps, along with the I, estranged and freed here, in this manner, some other thing is also set free?

Poetry is frosted fire.

Poetry is a dangerous gift.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

I gave my voice to poetry.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Music is poetry with personality.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster than your parents. People came to you for help with such things. So you took accounting and eventually became a tax auditor for the IRS. What an embarrassing job, right? You feel you should be writing poetry or doing aviation mechanics or whatever. But then you realize that tax collecting can be a calling too.

Poetry is mostly hunches.

Science is the poetry of reality.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

I like to write poetry.

If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the mainstream in short bursts and pulses and then gets diluted. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson shot up and then got sucked back down underground under more entertaining and less radical versions of body and self - poetry and prose that posited bodies in more perfect union with good citizenship.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

The true essence of Chinese culture is sophistication, refinement, the spirit of poetry. The spirit of ink painting and calligraphy lives on forever. Calligraphy is more important than painting. Chinese always consider nature. Man is a very small part of nature. That's why in Chinese painting you see huge mountains and man very small, very humble before nature. You must be harmonious and one with nature. You don't fight it. And then there's a bit of a poetry. Of course, it's very complicated, but also very simple.

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

Poetry is language in orbit.

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

History is the new poetry.

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it; if disgrace be good, they shall have it; if crosses be good, they shall have them; if misery be good, they shall have it; for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.

Hymns are the poetry of the people.

In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.