"Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose." ― Elia Kazan Topic(s): Poetry More From Elia Kazan "The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don’t dare reveal." "Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything." "I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies." More In Poetry "I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity."― James Dickey "I am grateful for – though I can’t keep up with – the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry."― A. R. Ammons "I’ve often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it’s been doing to my poetry when I’m not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."― George Murray