I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H.... →
J. Courtney Sullivan
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Lawrence Summers
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
Earl Sweatshirt
I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so... →
Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
Taylor Swift
I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you... →
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
John Millington Synge
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single... →
Wislawa Szymborska