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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

Patrick White

Age

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

Robert Penn Warren

Poetry

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

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.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Paul Valery

Poetry

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

Janine Turner

Poetry

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Michael Tippett

Poetry

Prose

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.