- 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
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