The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted… — Jorge Valdano Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart? — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
