I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. – Lafcadio Hearn
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. – Steven Pinker
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. – Seamus Heaney
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. – Seamus Heaney
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost. – Seamus Heaney
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. – Theodore Sturgeon
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. – Allen Ginsberg
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. – Abbas Kiarostami
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. – Archibald MacLeish
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. – Laura Marling
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. – Gaston Bachelard
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. – Phyllis McGinley
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. – Frederick William Robertson
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. – Jerry B. Jenkins
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. – Mark Knopfler
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. – Marilyn Hacker
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. – John Barton
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. – John Barton
In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change. – John Barton
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. – John Barton
