Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals…

“Strolling down a white-graveled walk to the cliff above the ocean, he let his eyes rove aimlessly over the expanse of sea and sand:…

— Jim Thompson

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

— Natasha Trethewey

I was doing a poetry thing in Tottenham and I remember walking down this road looking for the address, the pub where it was…

— Tim Key

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

— Roberto Bolaño

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

— Lana Del Rey

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

— Philip Levine

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God…

— Philip James Bailey

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

— A. E. Housman

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

— Seamus Heaney

“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.”

— Bethany House Publishers

“I was wondering aimlessly; too many road were open...too many resolves, too complex, allowed of being taken. I took...by far the simplest of them…

— Edmond Rostand

“By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was.”

— Paul Auster

Until there was you, I wandered aimlessly. For a long time, like a little child, I will cry in anticipation of you.

— Ko Joon-hee

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

— Walton Goggins

“Without purpose, we're zombies aimlessly roaming the earth.”

— Ahmed Mostafa