Poetry Quote Generator

“ I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. ”

~Keith Haring

“ Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me. ”

~Ryan Adams

“ The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. ”

~Mike Leigh

“ On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. ”

~Michael Cunningham

“ Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. ”

~Julie Taymor

“ I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ”

~Gordon Getty