America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? – Azar Nafisi
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. – Azar Nafisi
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth – the true poet is very near the oracle. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published. – Sally Kirkland
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. – Ajay Naidu
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. – Peter Davison
Poetry is composing for the breath. – Peter Davison
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – Peter Davison
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. – Peter Davison
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such. – Peter Davison
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. – Peter Davison
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. – Peter Davison
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. – Peter Davison
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. – Peter Davison
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. – Goldwin Smith
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. – David Hare
Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart. – Cheryl Hines
Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. – Wilfred Owen
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. – Salvatore Quasimodo
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. – Salvatore Quasimodo
