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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
— Philip Levine
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
— Maurice Druon
The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
— Matthew Arnold
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.
— Donald Hall
That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
— Walter Savage Landor
The best grammarian still can't write a verse.
— Dagobert D. Runes
No matter how long you behest, to the fruit draped tree. It will do you no best, until a shingle you free. — Shahzad Ashraf
I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I've ever gotten.
— Rosa Sophia
Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.
— Harold Bloom
I found the best thingI could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have. — Charles Bukowski
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
— Ellen Hopkins
Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.
— George Orwell
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
— James Broughton
Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.
— Henry David Thoreau
I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
— Natasha Trethewey
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Believing in yourself is the best poetry.
— Marty Rubin
Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.
— Grant Morrison
For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Poetry is man's best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.
— John Ciardi
The best gift you can give today is the gift of LOVE!
— Colishia S. Benjamin
Reading great works of literature, discovering poetry, and listening to the best composers are all ways that we learn to love the Creator more.
— Jennifer A. Marshall
The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.
— Daniel J. Rice
I wouldn't want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you
were the best of all my days! — Frank O'Hara
The best tourist is one without a camera
— Kamand Kojouri
There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.
— Rupert Brooke
You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up thepoet's consciousness in his best moods. — George Eliot
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."
— Denise Duhamel
Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.
— Miller Williams
Isn't it worth missing whatever joy / you might have dreamed, to wake in the night and find / you and your beloved are holding hands in your sleep?
— Galway Kinnell
The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best.
— Marty Rubin
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
— Jim Harrison
My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive.
— Tanya R. Liverman
I try to think of metaphors that suit him best, but he was made of the sea and the stars and the sun, and one wouldn't do him justice.
— Zorgie Adriana Sanchez
The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,They scorn the best I can do to relate them. — Walt Whitman
This dark December day inspires him to write / the plainest things in the snow, then walk away.
— Chard DeNiord
Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.
— Jeremy Young
Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Where the cheerful childrenof unwritten poems,
play all around,
you will find me there. — Khadija Rupa
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
— Virginia Woolf
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I can write jingles all day long but the best sensation is your own heart's song!
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Whenever life is getting tough hold on.Don't let it get the best of you stay strong. — Laqueisha Malone
Listen, / my wary one, it's far too late / to unlove each other.
— William Matthews
