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I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry. -- Mae Whitman
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry. -- Maya Angelou
I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them. -- Ellen Bass
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. -- Gao Xingjian
We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now! -- Rumi
Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back? -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. -- Milan Kundera
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. -- Kenneth Rexroth
I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry. -- Graciela Iturbide
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. -- Stephen Greenblatt
I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel I sort of get very excited and fed by. -- Ben Whishaw
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe -- James Dickey
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures. -- Andre Malraux
The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love -- Anna Akhmatova
I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very good at writing poetry. I mean, the distillation, I think, is hard for me, but I love poetry. -- Jesmyn Ward
But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry. -- W. S. Merwin
If you want to change people by talking about God, then there is only one way: instead of teaching God, you must live God. Because: "teaching" God is unthinkable in any other way than the way you would teach love or poetry. You teach love only through love, poetry only through writing poetry, faith in God only through a contagious way of trusting. -- Eugen Drewermann
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living. -- David O. McKay
..the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Yes, the real world is mysterious and sometimes frightening. But would the supernatural make it better? The real world has beauty, poetry, love and the joy of honest discovery. Isn't that enough? -- John Stossel
I love romantic poetry. -- Richard Dawkins
I love to write poetry. -- Shayne Ward
Love is the poetry of the senses. -- Honore de Balzac
Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion. -- Wale
People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. -- Helen Fisher
Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction. -- George Murray
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write. -- Colin Quinn
It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act? -- Robin Wright
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small. -- Naveen Andrews
Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me. -- Aimee Bender
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. -- Abraham Verghese
I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives. -- Peleg Top
I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel... I sort of get very excited and fed by. -- Ben Whishaw
We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. -- Billy Collins
In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. -- Erica Jong
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. -- Erica Jong
... poetry is fired by love ... -- Erica Jong
Is not poetry the food of love? -- Jane Austen
Life is a never-ending poetry of love. -- Debasish Mridha
Poetry is a big space and I love it. -- Selima Hill
Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum. -- Rumi
You have to have been in love to write poetry. -- Raymond Carver
Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to. -- Robert Browning
Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy. -- William Wycherley
I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well. -- Emily Susan Rapp
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. -- Robin Williams
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! -- Jennifer Stone
Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time. -- James Crumley
I love poetry and my country above all else in the world, -- Fyodor Tyutchev
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write -- Colin Quinn
Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry. -- Mary Ruefle
Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems. -- Antonio Gala
Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death. -- Carl Sandburg
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love! -- Arthur Rimbaud
I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read. -- Victoria Chang
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything. -- Gertrude Stein
I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book. -- Wendy C. Ortiz
Flowers are the poetry of the earth we are supposed to love and understand. -- Debasish Mridha
Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry. -- Madame de Stael
I am in love with the serendipitous poetry with which this universe expresses itself. -- Steve Maraboli
Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit. -- Charles Williams
But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt. -- Cyril Connolly
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. -- John Keats
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet -- Jane Austen
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. -- Zona Gale
I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it. -- Michael Helm
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters. -- Carl Sandburg
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired." "Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. -- Robert Frost
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. -- Jacques Maritain
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. -- Cesare Pavese
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings. -- George Eliot
Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. -- Milan Kundera
I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. -- Suzan-Lori Parks
If I could get that girl to publish her poetry, the world would change. (On Courtney Love) -- Kurt Cobain
I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive. -- Joan Larkin
It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater. -- A. R. Ammons
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion! -- Madame de Stael
I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. -- F. Sionil Jose
I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old. -- Masiela Lusha
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry. -- Philip Yancey
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me? -- Lemon Andersen
Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe. -- Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. -- Joan Miro
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry. -- Rajneesh
I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection. -- Pattiann Rogers
Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful. -- Larry Towell
Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele. -- Amy Dickinson
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. -- Wallace Stevens
In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness. -- Maurice Bejart
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense. -- David Brinkley
I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar! -- Margarita Engle
Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion. -- Kiki Dimoula
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. -- Tom Schulman
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative. -- Andre Dubus
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love. -- Paul Engle
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. -- Adrian Mitchell
Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts. -- Will Durant
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man." -- Stephen Greenblatt
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry. -- Marisha Pessl
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me. -- Jim Jarmusch
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand. -- Judith Wright
I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor. -- Victoria Chang
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love. -- Umberto Eco
I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential -- Jeffrey McDaniel
My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all. -- Roque Dalton
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting. -- Gabrielle Aplin
As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul. -- Stephane Mallarme
I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard. -- Junot Diaz

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