- There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
- Allen Tate on Poetry
- There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
- Edward Young on Poetry
- There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
- John Ashbery on Poetry
- There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
- George Will on Poetry
- There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
- Philip Levine on Poetry
- There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
- Robert Graves on Poetry
- There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
- Anthony Hecht on Poetry
- There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.
- Robert Adamson on Poetry
- They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
- Havelock Ellis on Poetry
- This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.
- Sonja Sohn on Poetry
- This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
- Azar Nafisi on Poetry
- This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.
- Eugenio Montale on Poetry
- Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
- Herbert Spencer on Poetry
- Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.
- Andrew Motion on Poetry
- To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
- Laura Riding on Poetry
- To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
- Brian Harris on Poetry
- To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
- John Andrew Holmes on Poetry
- To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
- Walt Whitman on Poetry
- To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.
- Octavio Paz on Poetry
- To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
- John Ruskin on Poetry
- Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
- James Broughton on Poetry
- Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
- John Betjeman on Poetry
- Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
- Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
- Marilyn Hacker on Poetry
- True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
- Eugenio Montale on Poetry
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