Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings. — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up.… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of… — Vic Fuentes Copy Share Image
Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is,… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
