We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. Elvis Costello animalbadelaborate Change image and share on social
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny. Earl Sweatshirt associatecornyidea Change image and share on social
There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry. Edward Hirsch alivecriticismdefense Change image and share on social
Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case. Etel Adnan caseclosecompulsive share on social
Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. Julio Cortazar arrivedreamplay Change image and share on social
I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. Marguerite Young eliotinfluencejoseph Change image and share on social
Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. Jim Harrison languagepoetrysoul Change image and share on social
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life. P. L. Travers absorbassumechild share on social
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. Maya Angelou destroyessaygive share on social
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. George Edward Woodberry englisheulogyexhaust Change image and share on social
