Tobias Hill Quotes

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance of talking in a few words.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

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

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

I like poems that are little games.

I love playing with words and texture.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

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

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

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

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.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14, that I became interested in language itself, and saw it as more than a transparent medium for a story.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

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.