Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
David Hockney

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
John Dryden

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
Patti Smith

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad Iqbal

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad Iqbal

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Muhammad Iqbal

Money is a kind of poetry.
Wallace Stevens

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
Andrea Dworkin

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
Wallace Stevens

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
Wallace Stevens

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Wallace Stevens

Poetry and prayer are very similar.
Carol Ann Duffy

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
Julio Cortazar

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
Federico Fellini

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Jean de la Bruyere

Poetry lies its way to the truth.
John Ciardi

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Joseph Roux

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.
Colin Quinn

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Don Marquis