Quotes About Poetry

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

I love romantic poetry.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

I asked what you love, you said, 'Anything with words.'

Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.

Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry.

Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over.

Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe.

I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.

Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead.

First, in a love song, or any song for that matter, using a plastic word like "inhibitions" is just completely without feel or texture. It demonstrates a tin ear for communication.

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.