Habit Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun.

— Mary Lou Retton

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

— Ali Smith

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.

— Muriel Rukeyser

“For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both…

— Kathleen Raine

Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind of poetry…

— Stephen Burt

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

— Edward Hirsch

“My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of…

— Jeremy Aldana

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are…

— Kevin Hart

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their…

— Clifton Fadiman

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

— Ali Smith

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind…

— Allen Tate