Quotes about Poetry

Poetry is fact given over to imagery. Votes: 5

Poetry keeps longing alive. Votes: 4

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity. Votes: 4

Poetry is the enemy of the poem. Votes: 4

Poetry is when you talk to yourself. Votes: 4

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned. Votes: 4

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Votes: 4

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Votes: 4

Poetry is life distilled. Votes: 3

Poetry is mostly hunches. Votes: 3

Poetry contains nothing haphazard. Votes: 3

Poetry is sublime nonsense. Votes: 3

Poetry can magnify experience. Votes: 3

Poetry is a dangerous gift ... Votes: 3

Poetry is the scholar's art. Votes: 3

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. Votes: 3

Poetry is language in orbit. Votes: 3

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied. Votes: 3

Poetry and philosophy will become friends. Votes: 3

Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced Votes: 3

Poetry is good for unleashing images. Votes: 3

Poetry gives you permission to feel. Votes: 3

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all. Votes: 3

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death. Votes: 3

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind. Votes: 3

Poetry increases the feeling for reality. Votes: 3

Poetry is a means of redemption. Votes: 3

Poetry and prayer are very similar Votes: 3

Poetry is an orphan of silence. Votes: 3

Poetry is an act of peace. Votes: 3

Poetry gave me back my voice. Votes: 3

Poetry is a break for freedom. Votes: 3

Poetry is a sort of homecoming. Votes: 3

Poetry is prose in slow motion. Votes: 3

Poetry is the breath of beauty. Votes: 3

Poetry is the memory of language Votes: 3

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. Votes: 3

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors. Votes: 3

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. Votes: 3

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing. Votes: 3

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. Votes: 3

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. Votes: 3

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied Votes: 3

Poetry cannot take sides except with life. Votes: 3

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear. Votes: 3

Poetry is what is gained in translation. Votes: 3

Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle. Votes: 3

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. Votes: 3

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation." Votes: 3

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. Votes: 3

Poetry lies its way to the truth. Votes: 3

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. Votes: 3

I find I cannot exist without Poetry Votes: 3

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools. Votes: 3

Poetry is the purest form of insanity. Votes: 3

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul. Votes: 3

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth. Votes: 3

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. Votes: 3

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense. Votes: 3

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Votes: 3

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables. Votes: 3

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. Votes: 3

Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived. Votes: 3

Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime. Votes: 3

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. Votes: 3

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention. Votes: 3

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors. Votes: 3

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope. Votes: 3

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. Votes: 3

Poetry surprises us with what we already know. Votes: 3

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. Votes: 3

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination. Votes: 3

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Votes: 3

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land. Votes: 3

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. Votes: 3

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason. Votes: 3

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace. Votes: 3

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience. Votes: 3

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. Votes: 3

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. Votes: 3

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. Votes: 3

Poetry: the best words in the best order. Votes: 3

Poetry is a totally different art than film. Votes: 3

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul. Votes: 3

Poetry must be as well written as prose. Votes: 3

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts. Votes: 3

Poetry is more a threshold than a path. Votes: 3

Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom. Votes: 3

Poetry is that which is lost in translation. Votes: 3

Poetry is the dark side of the moon, Votes: 3

Poetry is music written for the human voice. Votes: 3

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space. Votes: 3

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds. Votes: 3

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. Votes: 3

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. Votes: 3

Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence. Votes: 3

Poetry is a big space and I love it. Votes: 3

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. Votes: 3

I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts. Votes: 3

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. Votes: 3

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance. Votes: 3

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials. Votes: 3

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for. Votes: 3

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Votes: 3

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes Votes: 3

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Votes: 3

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. Votes: 3

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward. Votes: 3

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. Votes: 3

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. Votes: 3

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration. Votes: 3

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics Votes: 3

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life. Votes: 3

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. Votes: 3

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. Votes: 3

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. Votes: 3

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. Votes: 3

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind. Votes: 3

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup. Votes: 3

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. Votes: 3

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. Votes: 3

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life. Votes: 3

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration Votes: 3

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power. Votes: 3

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. Votes: 3

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth. Votes: 3

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember. Votes: 3

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you Votes: 3

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. Votes: 3

Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it? Votes: 3

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences. Votes: 3

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique. Votes: 3

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. Votes: 3

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language, Votes: 3

Poetry calls into question what it means to be human Votes: 3

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. Votes: 3

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock. Votes: 3

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. Votes: 3

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. Votes: 3

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. Votes: 3

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. Votes: 3

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. Votes: 3

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived. Votes: 3

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas. Votes: 3

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. Votes: 3

Poetry must be made by all and not by one. Votes: 3

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages. Votes: 3

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. Votes: 3

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody Votes: 3

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity. Votes: 3

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy. Votes: 3

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. Votes: 3

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. Votes: 3

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter. Votes: 3

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. Votes: 3

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit. Votes: 3

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. Votes: 3

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age. Votes: 3

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope. Votes: 3

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. Votes: 3

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. Votes: 3

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. Votes: 3

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold. Votes: 3

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event. Votes: 3

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive. Votes: 3

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. Votes: 3

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us. Votes: 3

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Votes: 3

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career. Votes: 3

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it. Votes: 3

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. Votes: 3

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Votes: 3

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. Votes: 3

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. Votes: 3

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. Votes: 3

Poetry dovetails contradictions. Votes: 2

I am Poetry. Votes: 2

Poetry cannot be translation Votes: 2

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes. Votes: 2

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. Votes: 2

Poetry makes nothing happen. Votes: 2

Poetry = Anger x Imagination Votes: 2

Poetry is God's work. Votes: 2

Poetry is frosted fire. Votes: 2

Language is fossil Poetry. Votes: 2

Poetry is devil's wine. Votes: 2

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir. Votes: 2

Poetry is the Devil's wine. Votes: 2

Poetry is not a luxury. Votes: 2

Poetry is the ultimate democracy. Votes: 2

Poetry is a mug's game. Votes: 2

Poetry to me is prayer ... Votes: 2

Poetry is talking on tiptoe. Votes: 2

Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Votes: 2

Poetry is all nouns and verbs. Votes: 2

Poetry is the eloquence of verse. Votes: 2

Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint. Votes: 2

Poetry should only occupy the idle. Votes: 2

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. Votes: 2

Poetry is a necessity of life, Votes: 2

Poetry became my doctor, my lover... Votes: 2

Poetry is the deification of reality. Votes: 2

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. Votes: 2

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment. Votes: 2

Poetry is telling something to someone. Votes: 2

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity. Votes: 2

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere. Votes: 2

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement. Votes: 2

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone. Votes: 2

Poetry is a religion with no hope. Votes: 2

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Votes: 2

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made. Votes: 2

Poetry is the disease of the brain. Votes: 2

Always be a poet, even in prose. Votes: 2

To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Votes: 2

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. Votes: 2

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way. Votes: 2

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ... Votes: 2

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet. Votes: 2

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. Votes: 2

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Votes: 2

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it Votes: 2

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Votes: 2

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Votes: 2

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Votes: 2

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. Votes: 2

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Votes: 2

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance Votes: 2

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. Votes: 2

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. Votes: 2

The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors. Votes: 2

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. Votes: 1

Every single soul is a poem. Votes: 1

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. Votes: 1

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. Votes: 1

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. Votes: 1

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. Votes: 1

A bush-warbler,Coming to the verandah-edge,Left its droppingsOn the rice-cakes. Votes: 1

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. Votes: 1

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well. Votes: 1

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Votes: 1

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Votes: 1

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Votes: 1

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Votes: 1

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. Votes: 1

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. Votes: 1

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. Votes: 1

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. Votes: 1

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. Votes: 1

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. Votes: 1

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. Votes: 1

When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. Votes: 1

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Votes: 1

At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a poet until I could establish a proud name over others. The alternatives battled in my mind and made my life restless. Votes: 1

The poetry is myself. Votes: 0

The poetry of speech. Votes: 0

I love romantic poetry. Votes: 0

Wine is bottled poetry. Votes: 0

Only poetry inspires poetry. Votes: 0

Slogan-making is not poetry. Votes: 0

Painting is silent poetry. Votes: 0

poetry's object is truth ... Votes: 0

It's history. It's poetry. Votes: 0

All poetry is misrepresentation. Votes: 0

We all scribble poetry. Votes: 0

... poetry is fired by love ... Votes: 0

Only poetry can address grief. Votes: 0

If poetry dies, nothing lives ! Votes: 0

Music is poetry with personality, Votes: 0

Music is poetry with personality Votes: 0

In poetry, only emotion endures. Votes: 0

I continue to explore poetry. Votes: 0

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses Votes: 0

Explanations are such cheap poetry. Votes: 0

All poetry comes from repetition. Votes: 0

I'm only interested in poetry. Votes: 0

Prose talks and poetry sings. Votes: 0

All poetry is experimental poetry. Votes: 0

I have been eating poetry. Votes: 0

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. Votes: 0

I love to write poetry. Votes: 0

I like to write poetry. Votes: 0

The cliche is dead poetry. Votes: 0

History is the new poetry. Votes: 0

Music is poetry in motion. Votes: 0

Let yourself become living poetry. Votes: 0

Superstition is the poetry of life. Votes: 0

For me, prose walks, poetry dances. Votes: 0

I see poetry as spiritual medicine. Votes: 0

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue. Votes: 0

Who, except the poets, reads poetry? Votes: 0

It is poetry that changes everything. Votes: 0

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. Votes: 0

It's beautiful, it's poetry in motion. Votes: 0

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. Votes: 0

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry. Votes: 0

The finest poetry was first experience. Votes: 0

There’s no preparation for poetry. Votes: 0

Romance is the poetry of literature. Votes: 0

Deprivation is the mother of poetry. Votes: 0

Prose is walking; poetry is flying Votes: 0

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. Votes: 0

Beer is prose. Wine is poetry. Votes: 0

It's not easy to define poetry. Votes: 0

Habit has a kind of poetry. Votes: 0

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks. Votes: 0

Wine is poetry in a bottle. Votes: 0

I read poetry to save time. Votes: 0

The secret of poetry is cruelty. Votes: 0

Made poetry a mere mechanic art. Votes: 0

I'm not a great poetry fan. Votes: 0

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen. Votes: 0

Money is a kind of poetry. Votes: 0

The crown of literature is poetry. Votes: 0

Eloquence is the poetry of prose. Votes: 0

Science is the poetry of reality. Votes: 0

Our best history is still poetry. Votes: 0

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. Votes: 0

You can't write poetry on the computer. Votes: 0

Personality is everything in art and poetry. Votes: 0

Solitude is an essential element of poetry. Votes: 0

The truest poetry is the most feigning. Votes: 0

More modern poetry is written than read. Votes: 0

I'm interested in the poetry of reality. Votes: 0

poetry is where the language is renewed. Votes: 0

I really came to literature through poetry. Votes: 0

All poetry is political, to some degree. Votes: 0

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me. Votes: 0

I hate French poetry. What measured glitter! Votes: 0

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary. Votes: 0

Gently touching with the charm of poetry. Votes: 0

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry. Votes: 0

The poetry of country music will survive. Votes: 0

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. Votes: 0

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion. Votes: 0

One must read poetry with one's nerves. Votes: 0

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. Votes: 0

History after all is the true poetry. Votes: 0

A lot happens by accident in poetry. Votes: 0

There can be no poetry after Auschwitz. Votes: 0

Love is the poetry of the senses. Votes: 0

What can be explained is not poetry. Votes: 0

Why should poetry have to make sense? Votes: 0

After a full belly all is poetry. Votes: 0

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. Votes: 0

No one ever expects poetry to sell. Votes: 0

Life is a never-ending poetry of love. Votes: 0

More people write poetry than read it. Votes: 0

There is but one poetry,--true poetry. Votes: 0

Hymns are the poetry of the people. Votes: 0

Is not poetry the food of love? Votes: 0

Football is the poetry of a motion. Votes: 0

The real thing creates its own poetry. Votes: 0

She lives the poetry she cannot write. Votes: 0

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry. Votes: 0

Why then we should drop into poetry. Votes: 0

In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry. Votes: 0

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. Votes: 0

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry. Votes: 0

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. Votes: 0

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. Votes: 0

Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion. Votes: 0

poetry had everything to teach me about life. Votes: 0

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. Votes: 0

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry. Votes: 0

San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme. Votes: 0

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia. Votes: 0

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception. Votes: 0

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry. Votes: 0

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. Votes: 0

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides... Votes: 0

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ... Votes: 0

I make no distinction between poetry and painting. Votes: 0

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry. Votes: 0

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry? Votes: 0

It probably started in poetry; almost everything does. Votes: 0

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. Votes: 0

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. Votes: 0

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. Votes: 0

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry. Votes: 0

I don't want to bury anything in poetry. Votes: 0

I think poetry is best read to oneself. Votes: 0

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry Votes: 0

You speak As one who fed on poetry. Votes: 0

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! Votes: 0

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not. Votes: 0

The essence of poetry is will and passion. Votes: 0

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE. Votes: 0

Writing poetry is a state of free float. Votes: 0

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry. Votes: 0

one of the springs of poetry is joy ... Votes: 0

The poetry of the earth is never dead. Votes: 0

Superstition is part of the poetry of life. Votes: 0

No time for poetry but exactly what is. Votes: 0

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry. Votes: 0

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. Votes: 0

Cosmos and its stars; poet and his poetry! Votes: 0

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us. Votes: 0

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. Votes: 0

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry. Votes: 0

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time. Votes: 0

Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy. Votes: 0

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. Votes: 0

As long as music survives, poetry will never die. Votes: 0

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact. Votes: 0

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life. Votes: 0

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry. Votes: 0

I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry. Votes: 0

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. Votes: 0

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness. Votes: 0

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge Votes: 0

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing. Votes: 0

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. Votes: 0

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival. Votes: 0

Dont be someone elses slogan because you are poetry. Votes: 0

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone. Votes: 0

I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips. Votes: 0

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry. Votes: 0

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? Votes: 0

I write poetry in order to live more fully. Votes: 0

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life. Votes: 0

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry. Votes: 0

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry. Votes: 0

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry Votes: 0

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum. Votes: 0

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it. Votes: 0

I like the way the prose and poetry interact. Votes: 0

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things. Votes: 0

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. Votes: 0

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. Votes: 0

May poetry and God's name have mercy on us! Votes: 0

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. Votes: 0

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate. Votes: 0

Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer. Votes: 0

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery. Votes: 0

History is still in large measure poetry to me. Votes: 0

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes. Votes: 0

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry. Votes: 0

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me. Votes: 0

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century." Votes: 0

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here. Votes: 0

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake. Votes: 0

In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else. Votes: 0

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body. Votes: 0

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry. Votes: 0

I never had much education in English poetry as such, Votes: 0

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. Votes: 0

In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth. Votes: 0

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion Votes: 0

I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie. Votes: 0

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult. Votes: 0

I never had much education in English poetry as such. Votes: 0

If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would. Votes: 0

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history. Votes: 0

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry. Votes: 0

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell Votes: 0

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. Votes: 0

I have my books and my poetry to protect me Votes: 0

What is poetry which does not save nations or people? Votes: 0

High School is the place where poetry goes to die. Votes: 0

The act of making poetry is an act of hope. Votes: 0

I read a lot of poetry. I read some history. Votes: 0

When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology Votes: 0

You have to have been in love to write poetry. Votes: 0

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life. Votes: 0

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. Votes: 0

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. Votes: 0

My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything. Votes: 0

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs. Votes: 0

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour Votes: 0

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God. Votes: 0

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry. Votes: 0

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink. Votes: 0

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. Votes: 0

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory. Votes: 0

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry. Votes: 0

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry. Votes: 0

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult. Votes: 0

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. Votes: 0

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry Votes: 0

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry Votes: 0

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man. Votes: 0

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry. Votes: 0

Be a poet and write your own unique poetry of life. Votes: 0

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols. Votes: 0

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. Votes: 0

The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved. Votes: 0

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. Votes: 0

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men. Votes: 0

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. Votes: 0

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry. Votes: 0

An art is a poetry but only a few can read it. Votes: 0

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me. Votes: 0

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it. Votes: 0

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life. Votes: 0

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well. Votes: 0

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write Votes: 0

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write. Votes: 0