Quotes having the keyword Poetry
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
by Horace Walpole (Author, English , born in 1717) keywords: beauties, character, comedy, diversified, even, great, half, imitation, just, nature, nor, operations, passions, plot, poetry, rules, situations, their , tragedy Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
by Horace Walpole (Author, English , born in 1717) keywords: art, beautiful, exchanging, harmony, laborious, plain, poetry, prose, sense , way The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
by Robert Penn Warren (Novelist, American , born in 1905) keywords: annoying, becomes, enough, having, itch, poetry, scratch, urge , write Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
by Patrick White (Author, Australian , born in 1912) keywords: age, asthma, chiefly, early, efforts, induced, literary, nine, plays, poetry, probably, reading, running, started , writing I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
by Saul Williams (Musician, American , born in 1972) keywords: always, become, life, making, never, poetry, rhymes, thought, up , would Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
by Walter Jon Williams (Writer, American , born in 1953) keywords: also, biography, even, fiction, history, literature, mainstream, mysteries, only, philosophy, poetry, read, science, should, want , write Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
by Malcolm Wilson (Politician, American , born in 1914) keywords: answers, artists, asking, emotional, got, hear, just, more, music, other, poetry, prose, questions, revolutionary, saying , than I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: believe, best, closer, different, form, novel, novels, perhaps, poetry, seem, short, spirit, stories, story , than Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: best, delicious, full, most, poetry, prose, true, which , yet Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
by William Wordsworth (Poet, English , born in 1770) keywords: emotion, feelings, origin, overflow, poetry, powerful, recollected, spontaneous, takes , tranquility I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.
by Marguerite Young (Author, American , born in 1908) keywords: actually, am, eliot, influenced, joseph, more, mormons, much, poetry, smith , than I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
by Marguerite Young (Author, American , born in 1908) keywords: could, devotion, most, poetry, quite, real, sure, sustain, takes, talent, would , writers
