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. Aristotle on poetry
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. Eminem on poetry
I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. Charlie Sheen on poetry
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau on poetry
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. Robert Frost on poetry
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. Robert Frost on poetry
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. Edgar Allan Poe on poetry
It's not easy to define poetry. Bob Dylan on poetry
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Edgar Allan Poe on poetry
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends. Virginia Woolf 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
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. Charles Baudelaire on poetry
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. H. L. Mencken on poetry
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. T. S. Eliot on poetry