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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. – Paul Auster

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. – John Ashbery

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. – Lawrence Summers

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. – Keith Haring

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. – Julie Taymor

Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. – Compay Segundo

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. – John Drinkwater

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. – John Drinkwater

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. – John Drinkwater

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. – John Drinkwater

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. – John Drinkwater

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. – John Drinkwater

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. – John Drinkwater

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. – John Drinkwater

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order – poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible. – John Drinkwater

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. – Johann Georg Hamann

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. – Henry R. Luce

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. – Stephen Greenblatt

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. – James Dickey

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. – James Dickey