Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some… — Marcus Mumford Copy Share Image
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics… — Marcus Mumford Copy Share Image
Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
That's one of those questions that would just love to have a pat answer. You know, poetry's job is to make us… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
