Top 39 Poetry In Motion Quotes
#1. Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide.
Johnny Tillotson
#2. I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful.
Bobby Green
#3. It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me.
Thomas Dolby
#4. They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.
Terry Pratchett
#5. Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully.
I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw a punch like you can. That was poetry in motion, Liss." She groaned.
Richelle Mead
#6. You were destined in a kairos moment to be God's poetry in motion, bringing the good works of the supernatural manifestation to a world that is dying to increase in the awe of God, whether they know it yet or not.
James Maloney
#7. Painters and sculptors and designers, they take raw materials and turn them into art. Dancers turn themselves into art. We are poetry in motion when we do our jobs right, and we can stop your heart with the point of a toe or the angle of a limb. But
Seanan McGuire
#9. The way you respond to me. You're poetry in motion.
Kitty Thomas
#11. Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
Wale
#12. Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a born poet, and a born writer. The Canoe is just the start of what I hope to be a long idyllic journey through the love and soul of the human heart.
Trent Zelazny
#14. In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.
Andrew Motion
#15. I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
Andrew Motion
#16. If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same.
C.D. Wright
#17. I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.
Billy Collins
#18. The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.
Robert Pinsky
#20. Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived ... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.
Andrew Motion
#21. While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
Andrew Motion
#22. On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.
Henry Miller
#23. Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.
Dejan Stojanovic
#24. You can make a difference in another person's life and not realize it, just by giving them One Moment of your time, One Memory to recall, One Motion that tells them they are not alone! OM!
Deb Simpson
#25. Though the body is its
genesis, a poem is the vision of a process
Out of ceaseless motion in edgeless space
Carved in space, vision your poor eye's single
armor against winter spring summer fall
Frank Bidart
#26. I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
Andrew Motion
#27. Get it? Gender is a country, a field of signifying roses you can walk through, or wear tucked behind your ear.
Eventually the flower wilts & you can pick another, or burn the field, or turn & run back across the tracks.
(from "Essay on the Theory of Motion")
Cameron Awkward-Rich
#28. The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion ... elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.
Denise Levertov
#29. Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
Andrew Motion
#30. Your love is poetry in perpetual motion capturing my heart with centrifugal force.
Truth Devour
#31. She who is in slow motion,
Is glowing red with blood
Which is mine.
Keishi Ando
#32. Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.
Andrew Motion
#33. I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.
Andrew Motion
#34. "Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad ... "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"
Kenneth Grahame
#36. Poetry is motion graceful
as a fawn
gentle as a teardrop
strong like the eye
finding peace in a crowded room
Nikki Giovanni
#37. Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.
Ray Bradbury
#38. And you you
bitch no irritating
questions re love and permanence only
an unrolling lifetime here
between your rocking thighs
and the semblance of motion
Al Purdy
