Failing Quote by F. L. Lucas

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

— Edith Hamilton

“I had to wonder if the Lord above had flashed a heavenly spotlight over my head and whispered, "Preach this sermon just for her.…

— Janice Thompson

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

“For me,” she wrote, “poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose.” Throughout”

— Sylvia Plath

“She had come to think of the poet as song-maker, not as scholar with her head”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless…

— Pietro Aretino

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the…

— Philip Larkin

“And as she recites Scripture words tumble out of my mouth too, all of the poems and stanzas I've memorized spill out, getting louder…

— Elizabeth Acevedo

“The Lord probably didn't appreciate her feigning nearsightedness in order to repeatedly lean into her husband when she should've been concentrating on the meaning…

— Karen Witemeyer

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

— Roger McGough