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- Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
- John Dryden on Poetry
- Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
- Edward Koch on Poetry
- Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
- Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
- Bernie Taupin on Poetry
- Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset on Poetry
- Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
- Anne Stevenson on Poetry
- Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
- William C. Bryant on Poetry
- Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
- Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
- Walter Jon Williams on Poetry
- Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
- George Murray on Poetry
- Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
- A. E. Housman on Poetry
- Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
- Jean-Paul Sartre on Poetry
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
- W. H. Auden on Poetry
- Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
- J. K. Rowling on Poetry
- Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
- Goldwin Smith on Poetry
- Every single soul is a poem.
- Michael Franti on Poetry
- Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
- Wislawa Szymborska on Poetry
- Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
- Marilyn Hacker on Poetry
- Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
- Wallace Stevens on Poetry
- Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
- Gustave Flaubert on Poetry
- Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
- A. E. Housman on Poetry
- Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
- J. Courtney Sullivan on Poetry
- For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
- Edward Dowden on Poetry
- For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald on Poetry
- For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
- Ian Hamilton Finlay on Poetry
- For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun on Poetry
- For me, poetry is always a search for order.
- Elizabeth Jennings on Poetry
- For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
- James Broughton on Poetry
- For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
- Eugenio Montale on Poetry
- For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
- Giorgos Seferis on Poetry
- For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
- Christopher Smart on Poetry
- For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
- Paul Muldoon on Poetry
- For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
- Charles Baudelaire on Poetry
- Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
- Jack Prelutsky on Poetry
- Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
- Norman O. Brown on Poetry
- From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.
- Nicholson Baker on Poetry
- From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry
- Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot on Poetry
- Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
- Jerry B. Jenkins on Poetry
- God is the perfect poet.
- Robert Browning on Poetry
- Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
- Stephen Spender on Poetry
- Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.
- He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.
- John Colville on Poetry
- He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
- Salvatore Quasimodo on Poetry
- 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 on Poetry
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