The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. – James Gates Percival
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. – Matthew Arnold
I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry. – Jane Campion
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. – Joseph Brodsky
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. – Antonin Artaud
Poetry is the deification of reality. – Edith Sitwell
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. – Rita Dove
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. – Rita Dove
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. – Rita Dove
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. – Rita Dove
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. – Lascelles Abercrombie
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. – Lascelles Abercrombie
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. – Lascelles Abercrombie
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. – Lascelles Abercrombie
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. – David Lee Roth
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. – Taylor Momsen
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. – Thomas B. Macaulay
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. – Adrienne Rich
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. – Walter Savage Landor
For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. – Tahar Ben Jelloun
