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“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what i ...

- Carl Sandburg
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There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

- Philip Gibbs
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“Whoever, when he dies, leaves on paper a beautiful line of poetry has left the heavens richer and ...

- Fernando Pessoa
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Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

- Camille Paglia
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Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

- May Sarton
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Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies

- Oscar Sparrow
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“Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger, their word is the ...

- Dejan Stojanovic
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When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

- Ray Bradbury
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“Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.”

- Dejan Stojanovic
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, i ...

- Lascelles Abercrombie
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“Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are ...

- Aristotle
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I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

- Ama Ata Aidoo
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

- Oscar Wilde
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“Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a natio ...

- Matthew Arnold
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I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and t ...

- F. Sionil Jose
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Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.

- Osip Mandelstam
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“Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibilit ...

- Dejan Stojanovic
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“I am in love with life, but I do not know what life is. Must I not, then, be in love with my idea ...

- Yosola Olaleye
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Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

- C. S. Lewis
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“The greatest poem ever knownIs one all poets have outgrown:The poetry, innate, untold,Of being on ...

- Christopher Morley
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“Neither alive nor dead; no one lets up, no one wins.”

- Dejan Stojanovic
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