The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more... →
Lafcadio Hearn
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her... →
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance... →
Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short... →
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of... →
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
Anthony Hecht
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
Richard Hell
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
Aleksandar Hemon
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of... →
William Ernest Henley