Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. Bette Midler on poetry
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. Lascelles Abercrombie on poetry
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. Wallace Stevens on poetry
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. Wallace Stevens on poetry
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. Wallace Stevens on poetry
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. Mario Batali on poetry
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. Eugenio Montale on poetry
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas B. Macaulay on poetry
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. Rick Springfield on poetry
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. Elia Kazan 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
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. Karen Armstrong on poetry
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. Seamus Heaney on poetry
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. Seamus Heaney on poetry
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. Yevgeny Yevtushenko on poetry
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. Guy Johnson on poetry
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. Raymond Chandler on poetry
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen on poetry
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. John Drinkwater on poetry
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. Danielle Steel on poetry