Disagreement is something normal.
Dalai LamaI’m really a normal football manager.
Jurgen KloppWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan PoeOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan PoeBut time has set its maggot on their track.
Dylan ThomasHence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
AristotleThe first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador DaliAnd poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Stephen KingPart of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.
Steve JobsBecause I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily DickinsonThe human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
Leonardo da VinciI’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
Maya AngelouWhen power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. KennedyThe poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
Maya AngelouI would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia WoolfHe ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily DickinsonThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
SocratesNo poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David ThoreauThe greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John RuskinAt ev’ry word a reputation dies.
Alexander PopeIt’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.
Charles BukowskiLong stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas CarlyleAnger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma GandhiO‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William ShakespearePure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert EinsteinI always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.
Amy WinehouseI don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.
EminemLove possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Khalil GibranHumor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Thomas CarlyleMy kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.
Michelle ObamaThey might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Emily DickinsonA poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert FrostI find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
Maya AngelouI started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.
Paul AusterThe learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander PopeA poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert FrostTo see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John RuskinOf Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Alexander PopeThe problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.
Dr. SeussIn the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. NixonIf a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
E. E. CummingsI know some people might think it odd – unworthy even – for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people’s poet so I write for the people.
Maya AngelouLove is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
PlatoPoetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert FrostPersonality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.
Edgar Allan PoeI think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.
Bob DylanEvery day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich NietzscheOnce I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. ChestertonModern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert FrostHow happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander PopePoets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard P. FeynmanThe poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
David HareI would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert FrostI write some country music. There’s a song called ‚I Hope You Dance.‘ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
Maya AngelouI am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
Emily DickinsonWho shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?
Virginia Woolf