- 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
- He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
- High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
- Robert Penn Warren on Poetry
- How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
- Allen Tate on Poetry
- However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.
- Norman MacCaig on Poetry
- However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
- James Schuyler on Poetry
- However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
- Eugenio Montale on Poetry
- Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
- George Murray on Poetry
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