Beats Quote by Mark Ravenhill

“For the poetry of a text is largely produced by the fact that the wild chaos of the universe is therein, at one and…

— Voltaire

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

— Denis Johnson

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

— Robert Morgan

Poetry is a mug's game.

— T. S. Eliot

“I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry; But where's that wiseman, that would not be I,…

— John Donne

“By God," quod he, "for pleynly, at a word, Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord!”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

— Sidney Lanier

“Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can’t be much amiss, ’tis clear, To see the rate you drink…

— A.E. Housman Marcus Manilius

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.”

— Helen Vendler

“And now he is singing a bard's curse upon you, O brother abbot, and upon your father and your mother, and your grandfather and…

— William Butler Yeats