Beauty Quote by Sidney Lanier

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

— Michael Longley

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

— Dmitri Shostakovich

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry… Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time,…

— Robert Burns

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

— Paula Rego

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer…

— Ezra Pound

When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what…

— Marcus Mumford

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold

Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing…

— John Cusack

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of…

— Philip Larkin

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where…

— Marcus Mumford

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live…

— Charles Bukowski