- And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
- Norman MacCaig on Poetry
- And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
- Mark Strand on Poetry
- And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
- Jane Campion on Poetry
- Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
- Russell Baker on Poetry
- Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
- Charles Baudelaire on Poetry
- Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
- Steven Pinker on Poetry
- Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Poetry
- As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
- Daniel Radcliffe on Poetry
- As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
- Thomas B. Macaulay on Poetry
- As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
- Jane Campion on Poetry
- As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
- Kenneth Koch on Poetry
- As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.
- Jhene Aiko on Poetry
- As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
- T. S. Eliot on Poetry
- As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
- Goldwin Smith on Poetry
- At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
- Satyajit Ray on Poetry
- At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.
- Rene Auberjonois on Poetry
- Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
- Carol Ann Duffy on Poetry
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