Funny Quote by Ritu Ghatourey

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry…

— Virginia Woolf

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

— Roger McGough

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and…

— Tracy K. Smith

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

— Jeffery Deaver

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

— W. H. Auden

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

— May Sarton

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

— Norman MacCaig

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet