Poetry Quotes

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me God of love only knows where. - Robert Burns

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. - Joseph Joubert

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. - Joseph Joubert

You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents. - Marcus Aurelius

You know, they've never done this before... They do it with the 'serious' arts. When we went to the American Academy and we threw this idea up, [fashion] was not on their radar screen. They were not thinking of fashion as something that was up in the league with the antiques, urban studies, and architecture, and poetry - the classics. But somehow, today, fashion has really morphed into something much bigger than it was. With fashion, because there's so much immediacy, and our shows are so globally broadcast, it may be the most immediate visual manifestation of the zeitgeist. - Michael Burke

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. - Sherman Alexie

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people. - Fred Durst

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them. - Lena Dunham