Poetry is good for unleashing images.

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

— Michael Longley

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

— Dmitri Shostakovich

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

— Zona Gale

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

— Asghar Farhadi

Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity.…

— Barbara Holland

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

— Diane Wakoski

“Look I'm not the God of Poetry or Good Descriptions, okay? - Hades”

— Kaitlin Bevis

Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as it now…

— Stephen Burt

When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things . Not to…

— Anne Waldman

“With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Wine is like poetry. If it's good wine. If it's not, then it's a tragedy.”

— Renée Carlino

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between…

— Harry Mathews

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

— Mark Twain

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that…

— Sidney Lanier