Why should poetry have to make sense? – Charlie Chaplin
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. – Richard Dawkins
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. – Emily Dickinson
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. – Vincent Van Gogh
I love romantic poetry. – Richard Dawkins
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. – William Butler Yeats
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! – 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
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
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
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott
The crown of literature is poetry. – W. Somerset Maugham
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. – Sylvia Plath
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne
