#poetry

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. ↗

— Peter Davison

#awful #because #i #i think #knows

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. ↗

— Peter Davison

#getting #head #makes #more #people

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#humanism #marxism #poetry #rosa-luxemburg #beauty

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

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#poetry #soul #worth #beauty

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

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#curriculum #deal #enabling #help #i

It's not easy to define poetry. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#easy #poetry