Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
Lord Byron
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Anthony Hope
I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.
Anthony Hopkins
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It... →
Ellen Hopkins
And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers' poetry. It would be fun... →
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying... →
Gerard Manley Hopkins
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace