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
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
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
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
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas B. Macaulay
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. Rick Springfield
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. Elia Kazan
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. Lynda Barry
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. Karen Armstrong
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. Seamus Heaney
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. Seamus Heaney
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. Guy Johnson
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. Raymond Chandler
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen
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
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. Danielle Steel
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. Joseph Roux
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. Brooks Atkinson