Hate Quote by Lemon Andersen

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

— Peleg Top

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

Is not poetry the food of love?

— Jane Austen

“Love doesn’t make you a poet; it makes you poetry.”

— Yarro Rai

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”

— Jane Austen

Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able…

— Julian Barnes

Poetry is fired by love.

— Erica Jong

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

— Cassandra Clare

“poets seem able to turn bad love – selfish, shitty love – into good love poetry. Prose writers lack this power of admirable, dishonest…

— Julian Barnes

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

— Wallace Stevens

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