Best poetry & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.”

Source: Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

“So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Firsts Kids Poetry Speak Causes My Own Records Team Worst What If

Author:Andrea Gibson

“My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me.”

Firsts May Poetry Found Materials Atmosphere Poetry Is Life Means

Book:A New England girlhood

Source: A New England girlhood

“Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.”

Firsts Art Poetry Example Genius

Book:The Critique of Judgment: Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment and Theory of the Teleological Judgment: Critique of the Power of Judgment from the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals & Dreams of a Spirit-Seer

Source: The Critique of Judgment: Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment and Theory of the Teleological Judgment: Critique of the Power of Judgment from the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals & Dreams of a Spirit-Seer

“Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.”

Firsts Art Poetry Becoming

Author:John Hollander

“Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.”

Firsts Poetry Literature Clarity Strangeness

Author:Peter J. Daniels

“Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back.”

Firsts May Facts Poetry Literature Lines Generations Poet Tradition Connections Absence Rhyming

Book:Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

“In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.”

Firsts Art Stills Hands Poetry Literature Depends Periods Capable Response Appreciation Genuine Judgement Minorities Discerning Endorsing

Author:F. R. Leavis

“... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.”

People Mind Firsts Two Self Reason Feelings Together Poetry Class Willing Poet Right Now Critical Intense Reason Why Poetry Is Sixty Indulgence First Class Self Indulgence Intense Feelings

Author:May Sarton

“Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.”

World Firsts Humans Stills Matter Moments Poetry Literature Events Poet Concern Verses Volume Insignificant Publication

Book:Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville

Source: Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville

“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”

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Author:Louise Bogan

“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.”

Mind Firsts Children Littles Whole Poetry Pieces Talent Poet Chiefs Titles Enlightened Aspire Superiority Hindrance Great Poet Unlearn

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.”

Firsts Children Littles Poetry Poet Enlightened Aspire Great Poet

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”

Firsts Long Book Poetry Reading Reading Books Dictionary Singer Songwriters Rock Music Oxford Really Long Big Book

Author:David Bowie

“grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.”

“I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.”

Thinking Firsts Said Remember Poetry Wonder Sky Poet Poetry Is Classroom Caves Savanna

Author:Lucille Clifton

“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.”

Men Firsts Earth Poetry Speak Language Heaven First Time Poetry Is One Word Heaven And Earth Amazement Predicaments

Author:Christopher Fry

“Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.”

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Book:The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.”

Writing Firsts Children Poetry Stones Throwing Writing Poetry Reverberation Poetry Reading Throwing Stones

Author:James Fenton

“To break the pentameter, that was the first heave”

Firsts Poetry Break

Book:The Cantos of Ezra Pound

Source: The Cantos of Ezra Pound

“In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.”

Way Writing Firsts Littles Has Beens Body Spirit Poetry Poor Doubt Proud Findings Hundred Bones Nine Opening Quests Breeze Curtains Gave Up Finding Peace Triumphant Pastime Dejected

Author:Matsuo Basho

“First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.”

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Author:Martin Niemoller

“Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.”

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Book:The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, Songs of Travel, Ballads and Other Poems by a prolific Scottish writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped

Source: The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, Songs of Travel, Ballads and Other Poems by a prolific Scottish writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped

“I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.”