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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

— Isaac Newton

“Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away…

— Nikita Gill

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last…

— Nick Hornby

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

— Edward Abbey

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone…

— Maria Shriver

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

— George Eliot

“For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both…

— Kathleen Raine

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you…

— Socrates

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

— Natasha Trethewey

I find it strange that - at least in my take on it - the people who are the most alarmed about the dire…

— Billy Collins

I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like it. It's…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's…

— Alec Soth