- Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
- Walter Scott on Poetry
- Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.
- Andrew Motion on Poetry
- That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
- That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.
- David Amram on Poetry
- That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
- Robert Creeley on Poetry
- That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
- Walter Pater on Poetry
- That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
- A. R. Ammons on Poetry
- That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
- Paul Muldoon on Poetry
- That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
- Galway Kinnell on Poetry
- The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
- John C. Ransom on Poetry
- The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
- Johnny Depp on Poetry
- The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
- Richard Dawkins on Poetry
- The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
- Caroline Kennedy on Poetry
- The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
- Sylvia Plath on Poetry
- The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
- T. S. Eliot on Poetry
- The cliche is dead poetry.
- Gerald Brenan on Poetry
- The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
- Lewis Thomas on Poetry
- The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
- Seamus Heaney on Poetry
- The crown of literature is poetry.
- W. Somerset Maugham on Poetry
- The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
- Charles Baudelaire on Poetry
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
- Victor Hugo on Poetry
- The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
- Laura Riding on Poetry
- The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
- Seamus Heaney on Poetry
- The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
- June Jordan on Poetry
- The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
- George Oppen on Poetry
- The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux on Poetry
- The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
- Gaston Bachelard on Poetry
- The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
- John Ruskin on Poetry
- The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
- The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
- Gilbert Murray on Poetry
- The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
- Philip Levine on Poetry
- The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
- Lynda Barry on Poetry
- The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
- William Shenstone on Poetry
- The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
- Martin Amis on Poetry
- The moment of change is the only poem.
- Adrienne Rich on Poetry
- The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
- Mark Knopfler on Poetry
- The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
- Erik Satie on Poetry
- The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
- Basil Bunting on Poetry
- The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
- Bruce Dickinson on Poetry
- The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.
- Teresa Palmer on Poetry
- The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.
- Jose Bergamin on Poetry
- The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
- Frederick William Robertson on Poetry
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