Famous Quotes
- I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Poetry
- I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
- Anthony Hope on Poetry
- I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
- Kenneth Koch on Poetry
- I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
- P. J. Harvey on Poetry
- I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Poetry
- I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
- Mark Strand on Poetry
- I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.
- Colin Quinn on Poetry
- I write poetry in order to live more fully.
- Judith Rodriguez on Poetry
- I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
- Jacques Derrida on Poetry
- I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
- J. Milton Hayes on Poetry
- I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
- Stephen Colbert on Poetry
- I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
- Bruce Cockburn on Poetry
- I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.
- Simon Armitage on Poetry
- I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.
- Marguerite Young on Poetry
- I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.
- I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.
- John F. Kerry on Poetry
- I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.
- Louise Jameson on Poetry
- I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.
- Angela Sarafyan on Poetry
- I'm not a great poetry fan.
- Rupert Everett on Poetry
- I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.
- Samantha Morton on Poetry
- I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
- Naveen Andrews on Poetry
- I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
- Andrew Motion on Poetry
- I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
- Callan McAuliffe on Poetry
- I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
- Anne Stevenson on Poetry
- I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
- Marguerite Young on Poetry
- I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.
- Charlie Sheen on Poetry
- I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.
- Story Musgrave on Poetry
- I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'
- I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
- Jeffery Deaver on Poetry
- I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.
- Justin Townes Earle on Poetry
- I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
- Ed Westwick on Poetry
- I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.
- Corin Nemec on Poetry
- I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
- Martin C. Smith on Poetry
- I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
- Howard Nemerov on Poetry
- I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
- George Murray on Poetry
- I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
- J. Michael Straczynski on Poetry
- I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.
- Jordin Sparks on Poetry
- I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
- Carl Sandburg on Poetry
- If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
- A. E. Housman on Poetry
- If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
- If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
- Joyce Carol Oates on Poetry
- If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
- Thomas Hardy on Poetry
- If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.
- Roger McGough on Poetry
- If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
- Emily Dickinson on Poetry
- If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
- Emily Dickinson on Poetry
- If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
- Jim Morrison on Poetry
- If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
- John Barton on Poetry
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