Apolitical Quote by Andre Naffis-Sahely

“I started seeing poetry from a strictly consumerist perspective as poets serving up beverages. Most, maybe like 97 percent or something, serve lemonade. You…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

— Dudley Moore

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

— Yehuda Amichai

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

— Laura E. Richards

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

— Franz Grillparzer

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got…

— Sylvia Plath

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that…

— Joseph Brodsky

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

— Marianne Moore

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain