Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
George Edward Woodberry
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth
Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
Franz Wright
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.
It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
Robin Wright
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you... →
Yanni
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler Yeats