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Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Tom Holt

Poetry

Childhood

Habits

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

David Hockney

Poetry

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

Anthony Hecht

Poetry

Secrets

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.

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry

Order

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.