Impossible Quote by Jean Giraudoux

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets…

— Criss Jami

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

— Ben Jonson

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

— Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

— John Dryden

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful…

— Robert Hass

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

— Harriet Monroe

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs…

— Joyce Kilmer

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an act of peace.

— Pablo Neruda

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

— Lana Del Rey

Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

— Robert Frost