Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dito Montiel

'Midnight Cowboy' is an exquisite piece of filmmaking. It's insane.

Elizabeth Phelps

Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?

Warren Zevon

I also told John Hammond this, 20 years later - to his exquisite embarrassment - that he was like this incredible, overwhelming influence on me.

Brad Holland

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

Stephen Hunter

'Shall We Dance?' takes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid American movie. Still, it must be said that as glossy and overproduced as the thing is, it's a good big, stupid American movie.

Benjamin Franklin

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun

Simon Snellgrove

The whole theme of the project is exquisite -- exquisite and expensive.

Joseph Roux

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

John Cleese

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like...

Octavio Paz

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Phoebe Snow

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

Dave Evans

Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

Robert Pinsky

Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.