Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. – George William Curtis
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. – Don Marquis
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. – Erik Satie
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. – Russell Baker
I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. – Joni Mitchell
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life – when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. – Erica Jong
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. – Stephen Sondheim
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. – Lewis Thomas
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. – Russell Baker
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. – June Jordan
Money is a kind of poetry. – Wallace Stevens
Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. – James Broughton
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. – James Broughton
You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people. – Fred Durst
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. – Jose Ortega y Gasset
The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry. – Lafcadio Hearn
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream – they go together. – Nikki Giovanni
Poetry lies its way to the truth. – John Ciardi
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. – Daisaku Ikeda
