Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Jean Cocteau
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and... →
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous... →
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
Stephen Colbert
Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language into people's... →
Teju Cole
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and... →
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... →