There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. – Edward Young
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas. – Caroline Kennedy
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. – Lascelles Abercrombie
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. – Wallace Stevens
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. – Wallace Stevens
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. – Mario Batali
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. – Eugenio Montale
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas B. Macaulay
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. – Rick Springfield
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. – Elia Kazan
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. – Lynda Barry
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. – Karen Armstrong
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. – Seamus Heaney
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. – Wilfred Owen
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. – Danielle Steel
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. – Joseph Roux
A lot happens by accident in poetry. – Howard Nemerov
