I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing... →
Jill Scott
I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something.' And... →
I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started.... →
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.
Alice Sebold
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
Giorgos Seferis
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Andres Segovia
Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.
Compay Segundo
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the... →
Richard Serra
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
Robert W. Service