It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all…

“Didn't it bother him that he was teaching his students poetry when he was certain it wouldn't make a difference in how their lives…

— Jenny Zhang

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

— Victoria Chang

There's always this kind of odd idea that people would say, "Oh, do you know the Queen?" But really people are much smarter than…

— James Corden

“It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it…

— Anne Frank

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back…

— Robyn Davidson

Kisses like poetry, like writing sonnets, quatrains, cinquains free verse desire Kisses like ballads, your tongue on the roof of my mouth. Tell me…

— Azra T

To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting…

— Amir Sulaiman

“Poetry is like a song without music,” I said loftily. “A song without music is like a body without a soul.”

— Patrick Rothfuss- The Name of the Wind

“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.”

— William Everson

Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say…

— Orson Scott Card

When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as…

— Ana Castillo

“She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.”

— Colleen Hoover

For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in…

— Tony Harrison

Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to…

— Josephine Jacobsen

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco