Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. Jose Ortega y Gasset on poetry
The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry. Lafcadio Hearn on poetry
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. Lafcadio Hearn on poetry
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. Nikki Giovanni on poetry
It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. Tom Hanks on poetry
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann on poetry
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. Russell Simmons on poetry
Poetry lies its way to the truth. John Ciardi on poetry
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. Robert Morgan on poetry
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. Aung San Suu Kyi on poetry
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. Daisaku Ikeda on poetry
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. Joseph Gordon-Levitt on poetry
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young on poetry
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. Ezra Pound on poetry
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? Joyce Carol Oates on poetry
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas. Caroline Kennedy 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
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas. Caroline Kennedy on poetry
My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence. Michael Sheen on poetry
I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song. Jordin Sparks on poetry