I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
It would probably surprise people to know that I’m interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
Queen Latifah was writing poetry. Maybe Latifah’s ‘Ladies First’ and Angelou’s ‘Phenomenal Woman’ are the same thing, a generation apart.
When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read – Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier – were rhyme poets. That’s what captured me.
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
Film has its own innate poetry.
Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn’t call myself a poet.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
I’m moving to Rio permanently with my family. It’s one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we’ve kind of lost that here in Europe.
‘Finally’ actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I’ve decided to create stories through video games.
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream – they go together.
I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I’ve loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.
Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.
Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings – happy, sad, angry, caring. It’s also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem’s all with each verse he writes.
Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.
