a poetry QUOTES

1 " Friendship is a poetry of life that is written in two hearts. "

2 " An art is a poetry but only a few can read it. "

3 " We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost. "

― Gaston Bachelard , The Poetics of Space

4 " Her flesh was powdery and voluptuously weary, as if tenderized by all the different beds and arms in which she had lain. Her face was as soft as the pulpy flash of an overripe banana, her breasts like two tiny bunches of grapes. She exuded a certain seedy charm, a poetry of premature corruption and decay. She breathed the air as if it burned her palate, baking her small, hot, whorish mouth. It was as if she were sucking a sweet or slurping champagne. "

― Dezső Kosztolányi , Skylark

5 " Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. "

6 " If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.' "

7 " Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "

8 " A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. "

9 " Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. "

10 " I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that. "