To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. John Holmes aliveapprehendbeautiful Change image and share on social
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. Paul Valery impossiblepoetry Change image and share on social
I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories. Bobby McFerrin bookchildpoetry Change image and share on social
Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. Jim Harrison languagepoetrysoul Change image and share on social
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. Dennis Potter childpoetpoetry Change image and share on social
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. Robert Littell magnificentpleasurepoem Change image and share on social
After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann, and with the friendly support of Emanuel Geibel and Franz Kugler, I dabbled in all sorts of poetry. Paul Heyse attendberlinboeckh share on social
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. Seamus Heaney achievehardpoetry Change image and share on social
When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience. Rory Kinnear experiencefailfate Change image and share on social
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. Stephane Mallarme ideamakepoem Change image and share on social
