When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. Muhammad Iqbal Poetry
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. Seamus Heaney Poetry
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. Seamus Heaney Poetry
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. Michael Leunig Poetry
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. Robert Morgan Poetry
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. Seamus Heaney Poetry
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. Maya Angelou Poetry
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. Seamus Heaney Poetry
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Virginia Woolf Poetry
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. Maya Angelou Poetry
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. Seamus Heaney Poetry