Bo Burnham Quotes

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.

The crown of literature is poetry.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

I am not sure that I can make the epigrams that you are hunting for. The truth is you have a pretty old horse to run and you’ve got to take me as I am.

When I first began writing, it was not in screenwriting but in poetry. That form was so evocative, all about the image and the emotion captured in a Polaroid-like smattering of words.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.