Quotes About Poetry

If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.

I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.

Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.

I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.

poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own.~from "the damned

There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range

Man is in his own microcosm akin to a personal box, with poetry as its lid which it can defend itself from the world

Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

The machines are too dull when weare lion-poems that move & breathe.

Poetry is the beauty of life.

Poetry is the essence and evidence of life.

All that is not prose passes for poetry.

There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.

Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.

With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season I received nor rhyme nor reason.

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.