There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
Khaled Hosseini
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that... →
Michel Houellebecq
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish... →
A. E. Housman
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin... →
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
Alfred Edward Housman
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes... →
Victor Hugo
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
David Hunt
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
Trevor McDonald