Poetry gives the greatest pleasure.

What gives me the greatest satisfaction is the number of people I can affect with my gift, with what I do. That's the most…

— Taraji P. Henson

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all…

— Claire Tomalin

My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private.

— Suze Orman

People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my…

— Jenny Shipley

Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The…

— Laura Riding

I was kind of influenced by, for example, the meaning of words in songs, that's kind of my poetry that gives me a lot…

— Steve Wozniak

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

— Anonymous

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

— Anonymous

God's Word does provide life lessons to teach us how to live. And it gives us beautiful poetry that gives voice to our human…

— Jennifer Rothschild

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what…

— Rita Dove

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

— Mahmoud Darwish

The greatest pleasure in my life is doing something people say I can't do.

— Anonymous

After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen