Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
Maurice Druon
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
John Dryden
Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
David Duchovny
The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness... →
Louis Dudek
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
Carol Ann Duffy
Poetry and prayer are very similar.
I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have... →
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.