Distance Quote by Horace

Whatever takes your fancy, you should do it without worrying what will people think. Otherwise, you will get stuck, like how some get stuck…

— Vivek Oberoi

Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point,…

— Courtney B. Vance

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if…

— Kenneth Koch

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in…

— Warsan Shire

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight…

— Billy Collins

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short,…

— Philip Larkin

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

— Osbert Sitwell

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent…

— Sarah Kay

Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and…

— Sarah Kay

When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as…

— Ana Castillo

Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to…

— Josephine Jacobsen

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

“She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.”

— Colleen Hoover

For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in…

— Tony Harrison