Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry.… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude,… — Brendan Kennelly Copy Share Image
Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return!… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. — Robert Frost 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
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear.… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My erotic poetry is not poetry that uses vernacular words. It is a very erotic poetry, but I never use anything, for… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
