Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. David Hockney on poetry
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. Allen Ginsberg on poetry
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. John Cage on poetry
I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important. John F. Kerry on poetry
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. Muhammad Iqbal on poetry
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. Camille Paglia on poetry
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. Ani DiFranco on poetry
Dancing is the poetry of the foot. John Dryden on poetry
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on poetry
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on poetry
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. Lascelles Abercrombie on poetry
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. Herbert Spencer on poetry
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. Annie Lennox on poetry
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Thomas Hardy on poetry
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. Vladimir Nabokov on poetry
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. James Buchan on poetry
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. Horace Walpole on poetry
Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. David Duchovny on poetry
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. Margaret Walker on poetry
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. Elizabeth Edwards on poetry