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Author Quote Preview Lascelles Abercrombie But the gravest difficulty, and... Lascelles Abercrombie By the general process of epic... Lascelles Abercrombie Epic poetry exhibits life in... Lascelles Abercrombie If epic poetry is a definite... Lascelles Abercrombie Poetry is the work of poets... Lascelles Abercrombie That is to say, epic poetry... Lascelles Abercrombie The reason can only be this... Lascelles Abercrombie Traditional matter must be glorified... Lascelles Abercrombie With several different kinds of... Peter Abrahams With Shakespeare and poetry, a... Robert Adamson Well I guess the plan was... Robert Adamson Well - I started writing - probably... Robert Adamson There's one of my new poems... Vicente Aleixandre Poetry is a succession of... Archie R. Ammons If we ask a vague question... Archie R. Ammons Probably all the attention to... Archie R. Ammons I am grateful for - though I... Archie R. Ammons Once every five hundred years... Archie R. Ammons Poetry leads us to the... Archie R. Ammons The poet exposes himself to... Archie R. Ammons That's a wonderful change that's... Archie R. Ammons Besides the actual reading in... David Amram That is what I did with... David Antin While I've had a great... David Antin I hardly remember how I... Aristotle Poetry is finer and more... Aristotle Hence poetry is something more... Matthew Arnold Poetry is simply the most... Matthew Arnold Poetry; a criticism of life... Antonin Artaud Written poetry is worth reading... Antonin Artaud Written poetry is worth reading... John Ashbery I don't look on poetry as... John Ashbery There is the view that poetry... Brooks Atkinson It takes most men five years... Rene Auberjonois At this point we've answered... W. H. Auden A verbal art like poetry is... W. H. Auden Before people complain of the... W. H. Auden Every American poet feels that... Paul Auster I guess I wanted to leave... Paul Auster I was always interested in... Gaston Bachelard The great function of poetry... Gaston Bachelard Poetry is one of the destinies... Russell Baker I gave up on new poetry... Russell Baker Poetry is so vital to us... Russell Baker I gave up on new poetry... Russell Baker Anticipating that most poetry will... Honore de Balzac Love is the poetry of the... John Barton An experienced reader uses the... John Barton Poetry is but another form of... John Barton In the past, poetry came in... John Barton If poetry alters the way in... John Barton Sometimes poetry is inspired by... John Barton My obsession with time informs... Mario Batali When I was in college, I... Charles Baudelaire Any healthy man can go without... Charles Baudelaire It is the hour to be... Charles Baudelaire It is time to get drunk... Charles Baudelaire The dance can reveal everything... Charles Baudelaire France is not poetic; she even... Pierre Charles Baudleaire Poetry and progress are like... William R. Benet Who writes poetry imbibes honey... John Betjeman Too many people in the modern... William Blake Poetry fettered, fetters the human... Maxwell Bodenheim Poetry is the impish attempt... Niels Bohr When it comes to atoms... Lisa Bonet A group of us started a... Jorge Luis Borges Poetry remembers that it was... Jack Bowman My art and poetry is very... Georges Braque Reality only reveals itself when... Gerald Brenan The cliche is dead poetry. Joseph Brodsky Poetry is rather an approach... Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry is life distilled. James Broughton Today the U.S. is farther from... James Broughton In the world of poetry there... James Broughton The quietest poetry can be an... James Broughton For me, prose walks, poetry... James Broughton My films are an extension of... James Broughton Poetry for me is as much... J. Carter Brown I found that it wasn't so... Norman O. Brown Freedom is poetry, taking liberties... Anatole Broyard Lapped in poetry, wrapped in... Jean de la Bruyere There are certain things in... William C. Bryant Eloquence is the poetry of... William C. Bryant Poetry is that art which... Basil Bunting The mystic purchases a moment... Edmund Burke Poetry is the art of... Lord Byron A man of eighty has outlived... Lord Byron Ye stars! which are the poetry... James Branch Cabell Poetry is man's rebellion against... John Cage I have nothing to say, I... John Cage There is poetry as soon as... Simon Callow Bleak House is just the most... Paul Celan Poetry is a sort of homecoming... Louis-Ferdinand Celine The poetry of heroism appeals... Raymond Chandler An age which is incapable of... Edwin Hubbel Chapin Poetry is the utterance of... Charlie Chaplin Why should poetry have to make... Gilbert K. Chesterton All slang is metaphor, and all... John Ciardi Poetry lies its way to the... Amy Clampitt Women who are inclined to... Lucille Clifton People wish to be poets more... Lucille Clifton Poetry is a matter of life... Bruce Cockburn I'd always loved poetry and... Jean Cocteau Poetry is indispensable - if I... Leonard Cohen Poetry is just the evidence of... Samuel Taylor Coleridge I wish our clever young poets... Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry: the best words in the... Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry has been to me its... Judy Collins I don't think you get to... William Collins Prior to Wordsworth, humor was... John Colville He fertilizes a phrase or a... Julio Cortazar Only in dreams, in poetry, in... Hart Crane And inasmuch as the bridge is... Robert Creeley That poetry survived in its... Mario Cuomo You campaign in poetry. You... Will Cuppy I don't like to boast, but... George William Curtis Romance like a ghost escapes... Peter Davison My friends never talk to me... Peter Davison I think poetry has lost an... Peter Davison Dealing with poetry is a... Peter Davison Poetry is composing for the... Peter Davison Poetry was invented as an... Peter Davison Poetry should be able to reach... Peter Davison Every so often I find some... Peter Davison But nobody can write poetry... Peter Davison They need to learn poetry... Peter Davison The more poetry you have in... Peter Davison But poetry is my life. Poetry... Peter Davison And there are a lot more... Peter Davison But for me, being an editor... Peter Davison There are so many things that... Peter Davison It is a way we reassess... Jeffery Deaver I've always written, all my... Jeffery Deaver I like the way words go... Jeffery Deaver But one does not make living... John Denham Poetry is of so subtle a... Johnny Depp The beauty, the poetry of the... Toi Derricotte Poetry asks people to have... Jacques Derrida I wrote some bad poetry that... James Dickey She was the Judy Garland of... James Dickey I think Ginsberg has done more... James Dickey I want a fever, in poetry... Emily Dickinson If I read a book and... Emily Dickinson If I feel physically as if... Emily Dickinson There is no Frigate like a... Bruce Dickinson The mystical poetry of William... Denis Diderot When superstition is allowed to... Denis Diderot Poetry must have something in... Ani DiFranco Sometimes the beauty is easy... Paul Dirac In science one tries to tell... Paul Dirac I do not see how a... John Donne I am two fools, I know... Alfred Douglas All good poetry is forged... Rita Dove Poetry is language at its most... Rita Dove I try to show what it... Rita Dove Have you ever heard a good... Rita Dove Instead of trying to come up... Rita Dove There are distinct duties of a... Rita Dove I was apprehensive. I feared... Rita Dove I see a resurgence of interest... Rita Dove The poetry that sustains me is... Edward Dowden For a poet to depict a... John Drinkwater A lyric, it is true, is... John Drinkwater Any long work in which poetry... John Drinkwater But in the finished art of... John Drinkwater For while the subjects of... John Drinkwater If it is an imperfect word... John Drinkwater It should here be added that... John Drinkwater Poetry being the sign of that... John Drinkwater Poetry is the communication through... John Drinkwater So it is in poetry. All... John Drinkwater The musician - if he be a... John Drinkwater To know anything of a poet... John Drinkwater We recognise in the finished... John Dryden Dancing is the poetry of the... Carol Ann Duffy It's always good when women... Carol Ann Duffy Poetry and prayer are very... Helen Dunmore Writing poetry makes you intensely... Trevor Dunn I guess the two Manifesto... Andrea Dworkin Poetry, the genre of purest... Richard Eberhart Poetry is a natural energy... Albert Einstein Pure mathematics is, in its... T. S. Eliot Poetry is not a turning loose... T. S. Eliot Poetry may make us from time... T. S. Eliot As things are, and as... T. S. Eliot Poetry should help, not only... T. S. Eliot Genuine poetry can communicate before... T. S. Eliot The business of the poet is... Henry Ellis Thinking in its lower grades... Paul Engle Poetry is ordinary language raised... George Farquhar Poetry is a mere drug, Sir... Federico Fellini Money is everywhere but so is... Ian Hamilton Finlay For me concrete poetry was a... Ian Hamilton Finlay But I can only write what... Ian Hamilton Finlay But at the beginning it was... Ian Hamilton Finlay Well, probably I was fed up... Robert Fitzgerald Poetry is at least an elegance... F. Scott Fitzgerald For awhile after you quit... Gustave Flaubert Everything one invents is true... Gustave Flaubert All one's inventions are true... Gustave Flaubert Poetry is as precise a thing... Shelby Foote I began the way nearly... Shelby Foote I used to write sonnets and... E. M. Forster The sort of poetry I seek... Rick Fox Let me read you some of... Robert Frost Poetry is what gets lost in... Robert Frost Poetry is when an emotion has... Robert Frost Poetry is a way of taking... Robert Frost Poetry is about the grief... Robert Frost Poetry is what is lost in... Christopher Fry Poetry has the virtue of being... Dennis Gabor Poetry is plucking at the... Zona Gale I don't know a better... Hamlin Garland There is no gilding of setting... Jose Ortega Y Gasset Poetry is adolescence fermented, and... Gordon Getty I was in Paris at an... Kahlil Gibran Poetry is a deal of joy... Allen Ginsberg The only thing that can save... Allen Ginsberg Poetry is not an expression of... Allen Ginsberg I want people to bow as... Allen Ginsberg Poetry is the one place where... Jean Giraudoux The flower is the poetry of... Diane Glancy Poetry uses the hub of a... Tom Glazer I published, privately, a collection... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Personality is everything in art... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Superstition is the poetry of... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Science arose from poetry... when... Vincent Van Gogh Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but... Phyllis Gotlieb You don't go after poetry, you... Juan Goytisolo In my opinion, the most... Robert Graves There's no money in poetry... Robert Graves If there's no money in poetry... Michael Graves I see architecture not as... Thomas Gray Poetry is thoughts that breathe... Stephen Greenblatt What we know is that... Franz Grillparzer Poetry, it is often said and... Franz Grillparzer Science and art, or by the... Franz Grillparzer Prose talks and poetry sings. Thom Gunn Deep feeling doesn't make for... Thom Gunn I was reading the poems of... Thom Gunn My old teacher's definition of... Thom Gunn There have been two popular... Marilyn Hacker I have experienced healing through... Marilyn Hacker Translation is an interestingly different... Marilyn Hacker When you translate poetry in... Marilyn Hacker Poetry seems to have been... Johann G. Hamann Poetry is the mother-tongue of... Edith Hamilton None but a poet can write... Knut Hamsun I have had much to learn... Knut Hamsun No, what I should really like... Tom Hanks It's always a combination of... Thomas Hardy Poetry is emotion put into... David Hare Poetry is the key to the... David Hare The poetry from the eighteenth... Brian Harris To be born in Wales, not... Thomas Harrison No art form points like poetry... Robert Hass I think that the job of... Nathaniel Hawthorne Nobody, I think, ought to read... J. Milton Hayes I wrote The Green Eye of... William Hazlitt Poetry is all that is worth... William Hazlitt Poetry is the universal language... Seamus Heaney I credit poetry for making... Seamus Heaney A public expectation, it has... Seamus Heaney Manifesting that order of poetry... Seamus Heaney In fact, in lyric poetry... Lafcadio Hearn There is one type of ideal... Lafcadio Hearn The subject of Finnish poetry... Lafcadio Hearn Perhaps there is an idea among... Lafcadio Hearn It is true that short forms... Lafcadio Hearn I often imagine that the... Lafcadio Hearn But every great scripture, whether... Anthony Hecht Poetry operates by hints and... Anthony Hecht There's not a good poet I... David Hockney Well you can't teach the... John Andrew Holmes To feel most beautifully alive... Tom Holt Poetry is one of the few... Anthony Hope I wish you would read a... Gerard Manley Hopkins It is a happy thing that... A. E. Housman Even when poetry has a meaning... Alfred Edward Housman I could no more define poetry... A. E. Housman If a line of poetry strays... A. E. Housman Experience has taught me, when... Victor Hugo Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that... Victor Hugo The drama is complete poetry... David Hunt Some Marines made fun of the... Muhammad Iqbal Art: If the object of poetry... Muhammad Iqbal If the object of poetry is... Muhammad Iqbal When truth has no burning... Anna Jameson Conversation may be compared to... Louise Jameson I'm hopefully touring with Colin... Jim Jarmusch I think it comes from really... Jim Jarmusch If you go into a bar... Randall Jarrell I think that one possible... Tahar Ben Jelloun Real friendship, like real poetry... Tahar Ben Jelloun For me, poetry is a situation... Tahar Ben Jelloun Poetry is not only a set... Tahar Ben Jelloun Poetry is a form of... Tahar Ben Jelloun I came to poetry through the... Jerry B. Jenkins Gil Thorpe is a great... Elizabeth Jennings For me, poetry is always a... Jewel I've always had a love for... Juan Ramon Jimenez Literature is a state of... Samuel Johnson Poetry is the art of uniting... Guy Johnson My mother asked me what I... Denis Johnson All the modern verse plays... Lynn Johnston And my father was a comic... June Jordan The first function of poetry... June Jordan So, poetry becomes a means for... June Jordan Poetry is a political act... Joseph Joubert You will find poetry nowhere... Joseph Joubert You will not find poetry... James Joyce Poetry, even when apparently most... Ryszard Kapuscinski The tradition of Russian literature... Elia Kazan Stylized acting and direction is... John Keats The poetry of the earth is... John Keats Poetry should... should strike the... John Keats The poetry of earth is never... John Keats Poetry should surprise by a... John Keats Poetry should be great and... John F. Kennedy When power leads man toward... John F. Kerry I'm fascinated by rap and by... Jewel Kilcher I think when kids just see... Galway Kinnell That's the way it is with... Sally Kirkland I had art as a major... Naomi Klein We are looking to brands for... David Knopfler I always liked the magic of... Mark Knopfler The music just tends to be... Edward Koch Deals are my art form. Other... Kenneth Koch As for political poetry, as... Kenneth Koch I love painting and music, of... Kenneth Koch I was excited by what my... Kenneth Koch I wonder if I ever thought... Kenneth Koch I was influenced by surrealist... Louis Kronenberger The trouble with us in America... Walter Savage Landor Prose on certain occasions can... James Laughlin Concrete poets continue to turn... James Laughlin I think that concrete poetry... James Laughlin I think that is where poetry... James Laughlin I think there's no excuse for... James Laughlin I think we will always have... James Laughlin Of course a poem is a... James Laughlin We don't attempt to have any... Comte de Lautreamont Poetry must be made by all... Laurie Lee What she did was to open... Fernand Leger What does that represent? There... Mike Leigh The whole thing about making... Annie Lennox I want to branch out. I... Philip Levine I realized poetry's the thing... Philip Levine The irony is, going to work... Philip Levine Meet some people who care... Philip Levine Now I think poetry will save... Philip Levine My mother carried on and... Gyorgy Ligeti There is a wonderful Hungarian... Joshua Logan Music has a poetry of its... Kenny Loggins I knew what book we had... Audre Lorde Poetry is not only dream and... James Russell Lowell Poetry is something to make us... F. L. Lucas Poetry had far better imply... Henry R. Luce There are men who can write... Thomas Lynch But poetry is a way of... Thomas Lynch So I suppose poetry, language... Robert Lynd Cut quarrels out of literature... Thomas B. Macaulay Perhaps no person can be a... Thomas B. Macaulay Perhaps no person can be a... Thomas B. Macaulay As civilization advances, poetry almost... Norman MacCaig All those authors there, most... Norman MacCaig And if they haven't got poetry... Norman MacCaig And the second question, can... Norman MacCaig However, I learned something. I... Norman MacCaig I never think about poetry... Norman MacCaig I was very interested in... Norman MacCaig In fact a lot of them... Norman MacCaig When I was asked to be... Archibald MacLeish Journalism is concerned with events... Archibald MacLeish Journalism wishes to tell what... Archibald MacLeish Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is... Naguib Mahfouz I love Sufism as I love... Thomas Mann Solitude gives birth to the... Ray Manzarek I thought we were gonna open... Jacques Maritain Poetry proceeds from the totality... Don Marquis Poetry is what Milton saw when... Don Marquis Writing a book of poetry is... Jose Marti A grain of poetry suffices to... James Martineau Religion is no more possible... John Masefield Poetry is a mixture of common... John Masefield Since the printing press came... Harry Mathews Well, the great thing for me... Harry Mathews Well, I had this little notion... Harry Mathews My next project is to get... W. Somerset Maugham The crown of literature is... Bruce McCulloch To me, Doors fans were always... Bobby McFerrin I want to write a book... Phyllis McGinley In Australia, not reading poetry... Roger McGough If I do a poetry reading... Roger McGough Whereas with poetry no one has... Elizabeth Shaw Melville Herman has taken to writing... H. L. Mencken Poetry has done enough when it... W. S. Merwin Poetry is like making a joke... Bette Midler Rap is poetry set to music... Czeslaw Milosz What is poetry which does not... Adrian Mitchell Most people ignore most poetry... Adrian Mitchell Stadium rock and commercial rock... Adrian Mitchell Written poetry is different. Best... Adrian Mitchell I use rock and jazz and... Eugenio Montale For my part, if I consider... Eugenio Montale However, poetry does not live... Eugenio Montale I do not go in search... Eugenio Montale Narrative art, the novel, from... Eugenio Montale Poetry is the art which is... Eugenio Montale Slowly poetry becomes visual because... Eugenio Montale There is also poetry written... Eugenio Montale There is poetry even in prose... Eugenio Montale This proves that great lyric... Eugenio Montale True poetry is similar to... Maria Montessori We especially need imagination in... Susan Montez Poetry transforms and redeems the... Marianne Moore Poetry is the art of creating... Marianne Moore Poetry is all nouns and verbs... Thurston Moore Most people can't tell now who... Marianne Moore I see no reason for calling... Robert Morgan I think that it's more likely... Robert Morgan I did not have a very... Robert Morgan Pound's translation of Chinese poetry... Robert Morgan You have to really dive deep... Robert Morgan The great watershed of modern... Robert Morgan Among the American contemporaries I... Robert Morgan The Language Poets are writing... Robert Morgan Our most famous writers are... Robert Morgan Poetry, almost by definition, calls... Robert Morgan The decision to write in prose... Robert Morgan Teaching writing over the years... Robert Morgan I don't think poetry is... Robert Morgan I don't think the creative... Robert Morgan Some people swear by writing... Robert Morgan I don't think American poetry... Robert Morgan I love to compare different... Robert Morgan One of the most powerful... Robert Morgan Alchemy is the art of far... Robert Morgan A poem in form still has... Robert Morgan The fact that something is in... Robert Morgan What actually makes poetry poetry... Robert Morgan If a poem is not memorable... Robert Morgan The idea of avant-garde art... Robert Morgan Part of what we love about... Robert Morgan The young people have MTV and... Robert Morgan I learned to impersonate the... Jim Morrison Listen, real poetry doesn't say... Jim Morrison If my poetry aims to achieve... Walter Mosley Poetry teaches us music, metaphor... John Muir The gross heathenism of civilization... Paul Muldoon For whatever reason, people, including... Paul Muldoon That's one of the great things... Paul Muldoon The other side of it is... Paul Muldoon We simply have not kept in... George Murray Even the people who have had... George Murray Humour is a fine line to... George Murray I've often entertained paranoid suspicions... George Murray The poetry community here has... George Murray Then I discovered I loved... Gilbert Murray The higher Greek poetry did... Story Musgrave When you're looking that far... Story Musgrave I've already written 300 space... Story Musgrave Poetry is its own medium; it's... Vladimir Nabokov Poetry involves the mysteries of... Ajay Naidu Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip... Corin Nemec I've done a number of readings... Howard Nemerov A lot happens by accident in... Howard Nemerov I think there was a revolution... Howard Nemerov I've never read a political... Pablo Neruda I grew up in this town... Aaron Neville So now I have a collection... Jason Newsted It all has to do with... Beverley Nichols Marriage - a book of which the... Richard M. Nixon In the television age, the key... Peggy Noonan A speech is poetry: cadence... Novalis Poetry heals the wounds inflicted... Joyce Carol Oates If food is poetry, is not... Phil Ochs There is an urgent need for... Mary Oliver Poetry isn't a profession, it's... Charles Olson I don't live for poetry. I... George Oppen Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is... George Oppen The first question at that... Wilfred Owen My subject is War, and the... Wilfred Owen Never fear: Thank Home, and... Arnold Palmer What other people may find in... Arnold Palmer What other people may find in... Boris Pasternak I come here to speak poetry... Walter Pater A very intimate sense of the... Walter Pater That sense of a life in... Walter Pater Many attempts have been made... Walter Pater Such discussions help us very... Robin Wright Penn It's just poetry, beauty and... James Gates Percival The world is full of poetry... Steven Pinker Art works because it appeals... Sylvia Plath The blood jet is poetry and... Plato Poetry is nearer to vital... Plutarch Painting is silent poetry, and... Edgar Allan Poe Poetry is the rhythmical creation... Edgar Allan Poe With me poetry has not been... Edgar Allan Poe I would define, in brief, the... Edgar Allan Poe All religion, my friend, is... Peter Porter I started off in England and... Chaim Potok A book is sent out into... Dennis Potter Children can write poetry and... Ezra Pound Music begins to atrophy when... Ezra Pound And New York is the most... Ezra Pound Colloquial poetry is to the... Jack Prelutsky We all need ways to express... Jack Prelutsky Poetry seems to sink into us... Jack Prelutsky Otherwise I don't read much... Jack Prelutsky I look for poetry in English... Jack Prelutsky Frankly, writing poetry for children... Jack Prelutsky Children seem naturally drawn to... Reynolds Price The older I've got the less... Samuel Prout Poetry does not consist of... Manuel Puig I like the beauty of... Salvatore Quasimodo Poetry is the revelation of a... Salvatore Quasimodo Poetry is also the physical... Salvatore Quasimodo He passes from lyric to epic... Salvatore Quasimodo Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric... Anna Quindlen There is little premium in... Colin Quinn I write all the time - I... John C. Ransom The arts generally have had to... John C. Ransom And how can poetry stand up... Satyajit Ray At the age when Bengali youth... Vanessa Redgrave Theater and poetry were what... Ishmael Reed Writing poetry is the hard... Adrienne Rich Poetry is above all a... Laura Riding To a poet the mere making... Frederick William Robertson The office of poetry is not... Judith Rodriguez I write poetry in order to... Isaac Rosenberg I despair of ever writing... Isaac Rosenberg I will not leave a corner... Isaac Rosenberg Nobody ever told me what to... David Lee Roth Rap is poetry to music, like... Joseph Roux Science is for those who learn... Joseph Roux Poetry is the exquisite expression... Joseph Roux Science is for those who learn... Joseph Roux Poetry is truth in its Sunday... Muriel Rukeyser Breathe-in experience, breathe-out... Muriel Rukeyser If there were no poetry on... Muriel Rukeyser The sources of poetry are in... John Ruskin The greatest thing a human... John Ruskin It is written on the arched... John Ruskin To see clearly is poetry... Bertrand Russell The true spirit of delight... George Sand He who draws noble delights... Carl Sandburg Poetry is the synthesis of... Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of the... Carl Sandburg Poetry is an echo, asking a... Carl Sandburg I've written some poetry I... Carl Sandburg Poetry is the opening and... Carl Sandburg We read Robert Browning's poetry... Carl Sandburg When I was writing pretty poor... Carl Sandburg Poetry is a phantom script... Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of a... Nathalie Sarraute One can't write for all... Jean-Paul Sartre Every age has its own poetry... Erik Satie The musician is perhaps the... Friedrich Von Schlegel A definition of poetry can... Friedrich Von Schlegel The poetry of this one is... Friedrich Von Schlegel Women are treated as unjustly... Friedrich Von Schlegel One has only as much morality... Friedrich Von Schlegel From what the moderns want, we... Friedrich Von Schlegel He who has religion will speak... Friedrich Von Schlegel Versatility of education can be... Friedrich Von Schlegel Women do not have as great... Friedrich Von Schlegel Nothing truly convincing - which would... Friedrich Von Schlegel Mathematics is, as it were, a... Friedrich Von Schlegel If you want to see mankind... James Schuyler Well, if this is poetry, I'm... Walter Scott Teach you children poetry; it... Giorgos Seferis For poetry there exists neither... Andres Segovia Lean your body forward slightly... Compay Segundo Because people are very interested... Richard Serra On the other hand, if there's... Robert W. Service Write verse, not poetry. The... Georges Seurat Some say they see poetry in... Karl Shapiro Poetry is innocent, not wise... Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry is a mirror which makes... Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry lifts the veil from the... Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry is the record of the... Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry is a sword of lightning... William Shenstone Poetry and consumption are the... William Shenstone The lines of poetry, the... Archie Shepp In rap music, even though the... Hu Shih On July 26, 1916, I announced... Charles Simic Poetry is an orphan of silence... Russell Simmons I want to promote poetry to... Edith Sitwell Poetry is the deification of... Christopher Smart For there is a sound reasoning... Stevie Smith I don't think Auden liked my... Stevie Smith All poetry has to do is... Huston Smith Poetry is a special use of... Patti Smith When I was younger, I felt... Martin C. Smith I've got a book of poetry... Goldwin Smith As to London we must console... Goldwin Smith Every one who has a heart... Socrates I decided that it was not... Stephen Sondheim One difference between poetry and... Herbert Spencer Those who have never entered... Stephen Spender Great poetry is always written... Rick Springfield I was one of those dark... J. G. Stedman Poetry is an art, the easiest... Edmund C. Stedman Poetry is an art, and chief... Danielle Steel In my late teenage years, I... Peter Steele It's bad poetry executed by... Gertrude Stein Poetry consists in a rhyming... Wallace Stevens Money is a kind of poetry... Wallace Stevens Most people read poetry listening... Wallace Stevens Everything is complicated; if that... Wallace Stevens In poetry, you must love the... Wallace Stevens If poetry should address itself... Robert Louis Stevenson Wine is bottled poetry. Anne Stevenson I did know Ted Hughes and... Anne Stevenson I don't like poetry that just... Anne Stevenson I have always made my own... Anne Stevenson I'm not really quiet or shy... Anne Stevenson Poets should ignore most criticism... Mark Strand Poetry is, first and last... Mark Strand Poetry is something that happens... Mark Strand I would say that American... Mark Strand I think the best American... Mark Strand I certainly can't speak for... Mark Strand I believe that all poetry is... Mark Strand And yet, in a culture like... Mark Strand And at least in poetry you... Mark Strand A life is not sufficiently... Mark Strand A great many people seem to... Theodore Sturgeon Science fiction, outside of poetry... Larry Summers In politics, as in poetry, it... John Synge It is the timber of poetry... Wislawa Szymborska I cannot speak for more than... Wislawa Szymborska Poetic talent doesn't operate in... Amber Tamblyn I don't think it's always good... Allen Tate There is probably nothing wrong... Allen Tate Serious poetry deals with the... Allen Tate I am not ridiculing verbal... Allen Tate How does one happen to write... Julie Taymor Theater is far superior to... Lewis Thomas The cloning of humans is on... Helen Thomas There are better ways we can... Henry David Thoreau I think that there is nothing... Michael Tippett Poetry is fascinating. As soon... Janine Turner I have always written poetry... John Updike Writing criticism is to writing... Paul Valery In poetry everything which must... Raoul Vaneigem The same people who are... Alfred de Vigny But it is the province of... Voltaire One merit of poetry few... Diane Wakoski American poetry is always about... Diane Wakoski American poetry, like American painting... Diane Wakoski But I am not political in... Diane Wakoski But I don't think that poetry... Diane Wakoski High and low culture come... Diane Wakoski I definitely wish to distinguish... Diane Wakoski Still, language is resilient, and... Diane Wakoski Because, in fact, women, feminists... Diane Wakoski I think that's what poetry... Diane Wakoski I'm perfectly happy when I... Diane Wakoski PC stuff just lowers the... Diane Wakoski Distinctly American poetry is usually... Diane Wakoski From reading a previous answer... Diane Wakoski I don't like political poetry... Diane Wakoski I have always wanted what I... Diane Wakoski I think I'm a very good... Diane Wakoski I think that great poetry is... Margaret Walker The poetry of a people comes... Herschel Walker My favorite subject probably was... Horace Walpole Plot, rules, nor even poetry... Horace Walpole Poetry is a beautiful way of... Robert Penn Warren The urge to write poetry is... Tom Wesselmann I didn't want to deal in... Patrick White Probably induced by the asthma... Oscar Wilde All bad poetry springs from... Oscar Wilde All bad poetry springs from... George Will There may be more poetry than... Saul Williams I was always making up rhymes... Walter J. Williams Even if you only want to... Malcolm Wilson Music is more emotional than...