Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very... →
Peter Porter
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the... →
Chaim Potok
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
Dennis Potter
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Ezra Pound
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of... →
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.