#poetry

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #bible #culture #emphatically #fiction

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#frankly #get #living #lot #make

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#go #i #like #poetry #such

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#developed #i #interest #life #my life

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#beauty #eyes #fear #five #going

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#also #bad #even #i #into

Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#poetry #poetry-quotes #thriller #beauty

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. ↗

— Rita Dove

#come #curriculum #early #get #instead

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. ↗

— Rita Dove

#ecstasy #feel #i #i feel #me

Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ↗

— John Dryden

#foot #poetry