Books Quote by Caroline Kennedy

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.

— David Hunt

I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it…

— Edward Hirsch

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

— Mat Kearney

Tessa had begun to tremble. This is what she had always wanted someone to say. What she had always, in the darkest corner of…

— Cassandra Clare

I was doing a poetry thing in Tottenham and I remember walking down this road looking for the address, the pub where it was…

— Tim Key

Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing…

— Gertrude Stein

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of…

— Russell Simmons

“Poetry Poetry, How did you find your way to me? My mother does not know Albanian well, She writes letters like Aragon, without commas…

— Ismail Kadare

It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.

— Campbell McGrath

When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out!

— John Cooper Clarke

I have never been in a band. But in my grand day of cabaret at Les Deux Cafes, I was doing this poetry of…

— Michele Lamy

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between…

— Sakyong Mipham