“I read poetry to save time.”
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“I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.”
“I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“It's not easy to define poetry.”
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
“It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.”
“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”
“It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”
“It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.”
“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”
“Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.”
“The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.”
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.”
“Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.”
“The crown of literature is poetry.”
“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”
“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”
“The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.”
“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.”