My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.
There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.
Death is the end of the poetry we call life.
Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Lover of poetry, prose and procrastination.
