Famous Quotes About poetry

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.