Because Quote by Franz Wright

Poetry doesn't necessarily need to be some erudite thing. Your mom telling you a story is just as much poetry as some old 17th…

— Arlo Parks

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

— Anonymous

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry,…

— Spoken Reasons

“I just can't get the poetry of the trees," he said.”

— Katherine Paterson

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

— Jessie Redmon Fauset

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

— Robin Wright

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie…

— Francesco Clemente

I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people talking to…

— Miller Williams

Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less…

— Kiki Dimoula

Poetry doesn't have to rhyme, it just has to touch someone where your hands couldn't.

— Anonymous

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the…

— Roberto Benigni

“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re not here—…

— Derek Walcott

I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry…

— Ellen Bass

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas…

— W. H. Auden

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a…

— Simon Schama