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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
— Felix Dennis
What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood? Que diran de mi poesia los que no tocaron mi sangre?
— Pablo Neruda
Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.
— James Wright
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth.
— William Faulkner
They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
— Edith Sitwell
There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.
— Charles Bukowski
It's not about putting forth the questions, it's about accepting the answers we ask for.
— Shane Koyczan
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
— Edwin Morgan
As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.
— Jhene Aiko
Change like a treeWhen it is winter
Don't complain or fear
Just wait for the spring
To bloom and sing — Debasish Mridha
As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.
— Victoria Chang
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
— Howard Nemerov
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.
— Knut Hamsun
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
— Mohsin Hamid
A newborn is murderous/but can't do anything about it.
— Kathleen Ossip
You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me?
— Charlotte Eriksson
Come gaze about aged churchyard and beholdThose vanish'd hours of lead and hours of gold. — Timothy Salter
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
— Anne Stevenson
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.
— Diane Wakoski
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.
— William Beckett
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
— Seamus Heaney
LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.
— A.E. Samaan
Whom boasts about his happiness, cause doesn't got it!
— Miguel El Portugues
Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.
— Jairam Ramesh
There's two kinds of womenthose you write poems about and those you don't. — Jeffrey McDaniel
A very crude difference between novels and poetry is that novels are about other people and poetry is about yourself.
— Philip Larkin
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.
— James Broughton
To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.
— Gregory Orr
Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.
— Carl Sandburg
Ladies, when you write a poem for Feminism because that is what we sometimes do, remember that it's never about them. It's only about you.
— Danielle Valenilla
The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we. — Prageeta Sharma
Knowing that you knew everything about us before we were bornLord, your love is amazing — April Nichole
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
— Robert Morgan
A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.
— Allen Grossman
The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.
— Dorianne Laux
Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.
— Eliza Griswold
They grew; they did not talk about growing.
— Dejan Stojanovic
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
— Alan W. Watts
Politics is about grievances.... Poetry is about grief.
— Raymond Paul
She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
— Damien Hirst
We write about love like we should be bound in padded rooms.
— Kevin Fuller
The funny thingabout
advice is,
we always tell
others
the things
we
cannot
really do
ourselves. — Robert M. Drake
I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.
— Edward Hirsch
It ain't so easy writing about nothin
— Patti Smith
I frowned. "Are you sure about this? It's a bit short." "So? It's poetry, not dick size.
— J.L. Merrow
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
— Wislawa Szymborska
When we know everything about this earth, the romance and poetry will all have been wiped away from it. There is nothing so artistic as a haze.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Also, it was the morning and it seemed a little odd to be thinking about poetry before luncheon.
— Barbara Pym
And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.
— Amber Tamblyn
Summary riposteTo the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
— Sally Phillips
I love poetry, but I often wonder how poetry feels about me.
— Delano Johnson
Friday night's alright for fightingSaturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
It's not easy to write a poem about a poem.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.
— Toi Derricotte
I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
— Natasha Trethewey
The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life- Everything has a natural healing
process. — Sanober Khan
You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
— Van Morrison
It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.
— Dejan Stojanovic
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
— Denis Johnson
It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.
— Dejan Stojanovic
If it doesn't sound insane, I would only talk about you and the only word which would come out of my mouth, will be your name.
— Masood Azam
Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.
— Josephine Hart
Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Real poetry is about life as it is lived by instinct, not by philosophy.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya
