I love romantic poetry.
~ Richard Dawkins
Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!
~ Alan Moore
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.
~ Stephen Lang
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
~ George William Curtis
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
~ Natasha Trethewey
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
~ Adrienne Rich
I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.
~ John F. Kerry
