By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. -David Whyte Poetry
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. -David Whyte Poetry
Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. -David Whyte Poetry
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life. -David Whyte Poetry
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future. -David Whyte Poetry
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. -David Whyte Poetry
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. -David Whyte Poetry
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. -George Sand Poetry
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. -Pauley Perrette Poetry
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. -Jean Cocteau Poetry
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. -Norman O. Brown Poetry
I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist. -Omari Hardwick Poetry
Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud. -Amy Tan Poetry
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels. -Candace Bushnell Poetry
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. -Eugenio Montale Poetry
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. -Edmund Burke Poetry
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. -James Joyce Poetry
