Top 1200 Great Poetry Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

The Masters is poetry to me.

Poetry = Anger x Imagination

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

There are no borders in poetry and language.

Poetry cannot be translation

Language is fossil Poetry.

Poetry is God's work.

I obviously would love to play with a great, great, great quarterback.

We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium.

Poetry is frosted fire.

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one of these movies, there's a lot of great stuff, but one might not be not as good with the writing in this or the acting in that or the directing in that, this has great actors, great directors, great script, and I really feel like we're gonna make the best one [movie with Young Han Solo].

Is not poetry the food of love?

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

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 an act of peace.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

Where I come from, we sing poetry.

Poetry is a means of redemption.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

I'm only interested in poetry.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

It's not easy to define poetry.

I love romantic poetry.

Wales was great. The people were great, and I had a great time there.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

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.

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

I love to write poetry.

I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

I continue to explore poetry.

It is poetry that changes everything.

Poetry is a dangerous gift.

Poetry is a break for freedom.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

Poetry to me is prayer.

If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.

Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because the language in a good poem is doing a lot of work emotionally and a lot of work intellectually. That means durable poetry can help us think about complexity, can help us resist easy answers and help us step back. And it can help us sometimes calm down, and sometimes it can help us stay upset.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

You speak As one who fed on poetry.

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

Dybala only lacks the belief that he is a great footballer. After his great experience at Palermo he had a great start with Juve and he did beautiful things.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature — both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.