Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not…

Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of…

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

“Poetry gives the greatest pleasure.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

— Anonymous

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

For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out…

— Michael Nutter

“What's more, I was free to do anything that did not hurt others that strengthened me and helped me in the one thing that…

— Samuel R. Delany

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

— Anonymous

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

— Albert Einstein

I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't…

— Pankaj Mishra