Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry…

I like to read a lot of books and poems. Even though poems are short, I enjoy the emotions that come with them.

— Jeongyeon

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music.…

— Joan Larkin

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully…

— Robert Morgan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

— Tony Buzan

I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it came through…

— Jason Reynolds

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't…

— Nick Tosches

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

— Norman MacCaig

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand…

— Steve Earle

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

— Anderson Cooper

You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone

— Al Capone

If you want to hit it farther, hit it better.

— Jack Nicklaus

The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

The truth is what I plan to find And I am getting closer every single day But from this world Im drifting farther away

— Andrew Neil Maternick

The farther you enter the truth, the deeper it is.

— Bankei Zenji