A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Edward Young
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
Marguerite Young
I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of... →
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or... →
William Blake
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry... →
Francesca Lia Block
What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or... →
Andrea Bocelli
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating... →
Niels Bohr
A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once... →
Lisa Bonet