Age Quote by Richard M. Nixon

Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have…

— J. C. Watts

I think that when you have any folks in our population who live under the threat of violence, who live under the threat of…

— Chris Christie

Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and…

— Virginia Woolf

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books of poems,…

— Lawrence Joseph

When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I…

— Amanda Gorman

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human…

— Maya Angelou

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

— Sherman Alexie

“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the…

— Audre Lorde

When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at the moment…

— G.K. Chesterton