Jim Jarmusch Quotes

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

I do think that all of us think in poems.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

It's not easy to define poetry.

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes very exciting. The melody is a great part of it.

I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling with musical language seems to me the highest achievement.

I believe that poetry should communicate.

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.