poetry

Found 6 thoughts of poetry

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Robert Heinlein

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

G. K. Chesterton

A poem is no place for an idea.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Adrian Mitchell

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Edith Sitwell