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" All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "

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" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "

" I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper. "

" Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. "

" There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry. "

" Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. "

" There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. "

" I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung. "

" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "

" The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. "

Lionel Trilling

" I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. "

" The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine. "

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

" It is always the unreadable that occurs. "

" I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet. "

Henry Austin Dobson

" Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. "

" I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. "

" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "

" Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. "

" I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. "

" Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "

" Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. "

Franz Grillparzer

" Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. "

" Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. "

" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "

William Wordsworth

" A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. "

" There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "

" I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful. "

" It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. "

" My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point. "

" There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps. "

" In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. "