All Quotes

Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.
‐‐ Brooks Robinson

Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.
‐‐ Gever Tulley

Podcasting is great. Total freedom.
‐‐ Bill Burr

Podcasting is not really that different from streaming music, which we've done for quite a long time. Having a traditional podcast that people subscribe to - the hype is ahead of the quality. Podcasting is essentially a download, and you run into copyright issues. What you're left with currently is podcast talk radio.
‐‐ Chris DeWolfe

Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way. When you go see a comedian in standup, that is the most pure, unadulterated form of their art.
‐‐ Scott Aukerman

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.
‐‐ Julie Klausner

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.
‐‐ John Cusack

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
‐‐ Paul Valery

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
‐‐ John Drinkwater

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
‐‐ John Astin

Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.
‐‐ Matthew Pearl

Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four.
‐‐ Rose McGowan

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
‐‐ Terrance Hayes

Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

Poems are not read: they are reread. Reread the poem, then read between the lines, then look at it, then watch it, then peek at it: handle it like an object. Contemplate its shadows, angles and dimensions.
‐‐ Terrance Hayes

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
‐‐ Billy Collins

Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
‐‐ Billy Collins

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
‐‐ C. K. Williams

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.
‐‐ Richard Eberhart

Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
‐‐ Thomas Lynch

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
‐‐ Seamus Heaney

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.
‐‐ Philip Sidney

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
‐‐ Aime Cesaire

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
‐‐ Isaac Rosenberg

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
‐‐ Matthew Arnold

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
‐‐ Saint-John Perse

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

Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.
‐‐ Abbas Kiarostami

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
‐‐ Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.
‐‐ Guy Davenport

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.
‐‐ Nikki Giovanni

Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

Poetry and prayer are very similar.
‐‐ Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
‐‐ Kevin Powers

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.
‐‐ Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
‐‐ Eavan Boland

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
‐‐ John Drinkwater

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
‐‐ Laura Riding

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
‐‐ Billy Collins