Football Quote by Robert Frost

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

— Vanna Bonta

“Poetry that tames language into tight structures and yet manages to move us comes off as a feat, paralleling ballet or athletic talent in…

— John McWhorter

A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not…

— Patrick Kavanagh

“Football is the poetry of a motion.”

— Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

— Robert Graves

My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does…

— Arthur Hopcraft

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it…

— Mark Strand

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read…

— Marilyn Hacker

I'm not a sports person, but every now and then, I incorporate sports in my rhymes because I'm always grabbing from certain things and…

— Gza

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

Poetry is a mug's game.

— T. S. Eliot