One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense. Glenn Howerton on pet
I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with. Juan Gris on pet
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies. Nicole Anderson on pet
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. Oscar Wilde on poetry
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. Oscar Wilde on poetry
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T. S. Eliot on poetry
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost on poetry
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost on poetry
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Khalil Gibran on poetry
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost on poetry
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. Edgar Allan Poe on poetry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot on poetry
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Plato on poetry
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright on poetry
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. Voltaire on poetry
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. Gilbert K. Chesterton on poetry
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. Plutarch on poetry
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Carl Sandburg on poetry
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden on poetry
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Salman Rushdie on poetry