I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.
~ Chuck Berry
For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!
~ Ellen Key
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
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.
Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.
~ Margo Jefferson
There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman.
~ Rupi Kaur
Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
~ Wale
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
~ Robert Morgan
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
~ James Fenton
Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.
~ Eileen Myles
Watching and learning from the great Josette Bushell-Mingo, who was playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the time, and then to return to the same stage six months later playing a lead role, was incredible - I fell in love with the poetry and the breadth of the language so much that I didn't want it to end.
~ Gugu Mbatha-Raw
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 liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
~ Chinua Achebe
I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.
~ Jonathan Galassi
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
~ Abraham Verghese
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.
~ Colin Quinn
My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.
~ Herschel Walker
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
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
Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!
~ Tristan Wilds
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
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
~ Karl Marx
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
~ George Ripley
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
~ Adam Smith
Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.
~ Shah Rukh Khan
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
~ John Milton
I love to tease men with my legs.
~ Eartha Kitt
By nature, men love newfangledness.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
~ Walter Scott
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
~ Oscar Wilde
Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
~ Zhang Ziyi
I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.
~ Ellen Degeneres
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
~ William Congreve
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
~ Walter Savage Landor
My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.
~ Kurt Cobain
The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.
~ Marianne Williamson
I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.
~ Charlie Sheen
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
~ Edward Abbey
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
~ Apollonius Of Tyana
