Joshua Sasse Quotes

I'm really into poetry.

The cliche is dead poetry.

I'm a poet.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

I'm a wizard at poetry.

I'm only interested in poetry.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

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

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

Lyricists play with words.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.