Quotes About Poetry

I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1970s and '80s - you know, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Ciaran Carson - that was probably the finest body of work since the Gaelic renaissance, up there with the work of Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory.

After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann, and with the friendly support of Emanuel Geibel and Franz Kugler, I dabbled in all sorts of poetry.

O woman shapely as a swan.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that reflected the state of their own lives.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best.

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.

Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

That's what a poem is. Words which have a hidden meaning. A poem is like a secret.

I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an undergrad at Stanford. I was so intimidated.