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Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion. -- Wale
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. -- George Steiner
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
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
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
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
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
My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. -- Erica Jong
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. -- Raoul Vaneigem
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. -- Lafcadio Hearn
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
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art. -- Robert Pinsky
I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. -- Naguib Mahfouz
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. -- Peter Davison
In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now. -- Aaron Lazar
I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time. -- Lisa Marie Presley
I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty. -- Louise Jameson
I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside. -- Jane Hirshfield
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas. -- Caroline Kennedy
I love romantic poetry. -- Richard Dawkins
I love to write poetry. -- Shayne Ward
... poetry is fired by love ... -- Erica Jong
Life is a never-ending poetry of love. -- Debasish Mridha
Is not poetry the food of love? -- Jane Austen
Love is the poetry of the senses. -- Honore de Balzac
People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. -- Helen Fisher
Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum. -- Rumi
Poetry is a big space and I love it. -- Selima Hill
You have to have been in love to write poetry. -- Raymond Carver
Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy. -- William Wycherley
Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to. -- Robert Browning
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. -- Robin Williams
Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time. -- James Crumley
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! -- Jennifer Stone
I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well. -- Emily Susan Rapp
I love poetry and my country above all else in the world, -- Fyodor Tyutchev
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. -- Gao Xingjian
Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death. -- Carl Sandburg
Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems. -- Antonio Gala
Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry. -- Mary Ruefle
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write -- Colin Quinn
We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now! -- Rumi
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love! -- Arthur Rimbaud
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write. -- Colin Quinn
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act? -- Robin Wright
Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry. -- Madame de Stael
Flowers are the poetry of the earth we are supposed to love and understand. -- Debasish Mridha
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 am in love with the serendipitous poetry with which this universe expresses itself. -- Steve Maraboli
I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book. -- Wendy C. Ortiz
But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit. -- Charles Williams
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. -- John Keats
In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt. -- Cyril Connolly
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet -- Jane Austen
Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back? -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. -- Abraham Verghese
Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. -- Milan Kundera
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
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 is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired." "Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. -- Robert Frost
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
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. -- Jacques Maritain
If I could get that girl to publish her poetry, the world would change. (On Courtney Love) -- Kurt Cobain
I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. -- Suzan-Lori Parks
I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive. -- Joan Larkin
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. -- Zona Gale
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
In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. -- Milan Kundera
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion! -- Madame de Stael
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this. -- Benjamin Disraeli
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry. -- Philip Yancey
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. -- Kenneth Rexroth
[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 love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry. -- Graciela Iturbide
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint. -- Kiki Dimoula
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the fear of death. -- John Betjeman

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