Poetry Quotes
Alexander Pope leads, followed by Florence Earle Coates, Muriel Rukeyser and Horace. Samuel Johnson’s definition in Lives of the English Poets (1779), poetry as the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason, is the best-sourced entry, and Thoreau’s couplet from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) is the saddest: his life was the poem he would have written, but he could not both live it and utter it.
Flagged: “All poetry is misrepresentation,” credited to Jeremy Bentham and disputed; a triplet on three poets from three distant ages, credited to Dryden and disputed; and “The crown of literature is poetry,” credited to Somerset Maugham and marked misattributed.
Of God one doesn't speak with any precision or seriousness except in poetry.
Poetry belongs everywhere, of course — but especially in the classroom…
Since the earliest history, poetry and the spoken word have been the pulse of human civilization.
"Poetry seems to capture my imagination the most when it comes to creative writing."
Poets develop quite early a strong instinct to find and hear poetry that nourishes them.
The internet is a great resource for poetry, and there is so much going on there.
I hope to re-engage young people, who have long been disenfranchised, through poetry.
One of my all-time favourite poets is Charles Bukowski. I think he's the coolest guy in the world.