| "When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech." »Simonides |
| "Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people." »Adrian Mitchell |
| "I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "poetry is what gets lost in translation." »Robert Frost |
| "poetry the best words in the best order." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." »Mario M Cuomo |
| "A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
| "poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance." »M. C. Richards |
| "Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde |
| "poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
| "Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry." »Charles Baudelaire |
| "In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
| "A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." »Jean Giraudoux |
| "poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." »Charles Simic |
| "poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake." »Lord Byron |
| "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." »Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac |
| "It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us." »John Ruskin |
| "poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance." »John Keats |
| "What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows." »Peter Brodie |
| "It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry." »Andrew Schneider |
| "The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry." »Bertrand Russell |
| "It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose." »Boris Pasternak |
| "I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world." »Russell Baker |
| "I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." »Socrates |
| "The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers." »Lewis Thomas |
| "Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." »J. D. Salinger |
| "Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry." »This Is Spinal Tap |
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