#poetry

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#bro #deploy #destroy #fingertips #got

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#announced #begin #classical #experiments #friends

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ↗

— Robert Frost

#emotion #found #thought #words

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. ↗

— Zona Gale

#digestion #good #good digestion #i #know

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#music #poetry #tends #vehicle

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#hungarian #literature #lyric #poetry #wonderful

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#history #hobbies #interests #language #maker

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#art #pleasure #truth #uniting

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#ignore #ignores #most #people #poetry

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#audience #commercial #ideal #needs #opposite