It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. John Ruskin
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. Lord Byron
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. John Ruskin
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. Charles Baudelaire
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. Maria Montessori
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. Peter Steele
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. John Muir
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls. James Russell Lowell
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. Allen Ginsberg
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. Tahar Ben Jelloun
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. Nathaniel Hawthorne
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. Carl Sandburg
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. Carl Sandburg
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. Carl Sandburg
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Carl Sandburg
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Virginia Woolf
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. Robert W. Service
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. E. M. Forster
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. Paul Dirac
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. Andres Segovia