Josephine Hart Quotes

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.

There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it - that just seems to access another part of the brain. You know, Charles Olson talks about this transfer of energy that happens between the writer and the reader of the poem. I guess there's something essential to me about acknowledging upfront the immensity of it - the difficulty of it - and even allowing that to be the subject.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.