There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact…

— Ed Rendell

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's…

— Caitlin Moran

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

— Laozi

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are…

— Kevin Hart

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their…

— Clifton Fadiman

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

— Ali Smith

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind…

— Allen Tate

“I had never thought of haiku, or any kind of poetry for that matter, as a social activity.”

— Abigail Friedman

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life,…

— Kevin Hart

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

— Ali Smith