- Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
- Charles Simic on Poetry
- We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
- Jack Prelutsky on Poetry
- We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
- John Fowles on Poetry
- We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
- Naomi Klein on Poetry
- We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.
- James Laughlin on Poetry
- We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
- Maria Montessori on Poetry
- We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
- William Butler Yeats on Poetry
- We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
- Carl Sandburg on Poetry
- We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
- Paul Muldoon on Poetry
- Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.
- Robert Adamson on Poetry
- Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
- Robert Adamson on Poetry
- Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
- David Hockney on Poetry
- Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence.
- Harry Mathews on Poetry
- Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.
- Misha Collins on Poetry
- Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
- David Duchovny on Poetry
- Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!
- Tristan Wilds on Poetry
- Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
- James Schuyler on Poetry
- Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
- Ian Hamilton Finlay on Poetry
- Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
- Harry Mathews on Poetry
- What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
- Fernand Leger on Poetry
- What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
- Patti Smith on Poetry
- What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
- Czeslaw Milosz on Poetry
- What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
- Arnold Palmer on Poetry
- What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
- Laurie Lee on Poetry
- What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
- Stephen Greenblatt on Poetry
- When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Poetry
- When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
- Tea Obreht on Poetry
- When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
- Nicholson Baker on Poetry
- When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
- Norman MacCaig on Poetry
- When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
- Mario Batali on Poetry
- When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
- Carl Sandburg on Poetry
- When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
- Patti Smith on Poetry
- When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
- Niels Bohr on Poetry
- When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
- John F. Kennedy on Poetry
- When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
- Denis Diderot on Poetry
- When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Poetry
- When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
- Marilyn Hacker on Poetry
- When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.
- Caroline Kennedy on Poetry
- When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.
- Story Musgrave on Poetry
- Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.
- Roger McGough on Poetry
- While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
- Andrew Motion on Poetry
- While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
- David Antin on Poetry
- Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
- William Rose Benet on Poetry
- Why should poetry have to make sense?
- Charlie Chaplin on Poetry
- Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson on Poetry
- With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Poetry
- With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
- With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
- Peter Abrahams on Poetry
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