Poetry Style Quotes

#1. I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

Caroline Kennedy

#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. People speak generally of a plain style and an elaborate style. I think this is wrong, because what is important ... is that poetry should be living ...

Jorge Luis Borges

#4. If poetry is outta style then I wish to bring it back

Justin Bienvenue

#5. That became the signature Ice-T style - rhymes that were "topical" and "vividly optical." To me it was street-level journalism, real-life observations told in poetry. That's the vision I tried to bring to all my recordings.

Ice-T

#6. Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.

Wallace Stevens

#7. My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

Patti Smith

#8. The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style ... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.

Paul Simon

#10. Poetry is the language of the soul;
Poetic Prose, the language of my heart.
Each line must flow as in a song,
and strike a chord that rings forever.
To me, words are music!

Lori R. Lopez

#11. Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. For a poet, style is the only morality.

Jennifer Stone

#13. I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.

Matt De La Pena

#14. I was actually a poetry major in college before I punted and decided to become a theater major. I wrote the poem that we put on the sauerkraut boxes in the style of Elling.

Denis O'Hare

#15. Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how sophisticated can hole-fucking really be

Emilie Autumn

#16. These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.

Lucian Of Samosata

#17. We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

Juan Felipe Herrera