Poetry

Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.
Compay Segundo
Poetry
People
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Andres Segovia
Music
Poetry
Heart
Body
Guitar
Support
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
Giorgos Seferis
Men
Poetry
Heart
Countries
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
Wisdom
Poetry
Children
Grace
Mind
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
James Schuyler
Poetry
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
Erik Satie
Art
Poetry
Animals
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Age
History
Poetry
Circumstances
Class
Nation
Race
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
Nathalie Sarraute
Poetry
People
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry
Rainbows
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry
Dance
Echo
Shadow
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry
Hair
Midnight
Poor
Pretty
Writing
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry
Guidance
Poems