The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
Bruce Dickinson

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Raymond Chandler

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
Mary Oliver

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
Tom Hanks

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
David Lee Roth

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
John Donne

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
Russell Simmons

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Audre Lorde

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
Stephen Sondheim

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert