I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and another on my back that says 'The Road Not Taken,' which is a poem by Robert Frost.
— Steven R. McQueen
When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.
— Steve Martin
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
— Steve Earle
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
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
— Stephen Greenblatt
Poetry is a totally different art than film.
— Stan Brakhage
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
— Soren Kierkegaard
History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
— Simon Schama
Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop - not that what I do is poetry.
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
— Simon Armitage
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.
— Sidney Lanier
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
— Sherman Alexie
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
— Shelby Foote
I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.
— Sharon Creech
Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art.
— Sebastian Lelio
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
— Seamus Heaney
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
— Steven Pinker
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
— Stephen Spender
If I'm walking along the street, ideas come. Ideas about things that I'm interested in. I've jotted them down in the past on bits of paper and then, more recently, on apps in my phone. I've always written poetry since I was a kid.
— Stephen Hough
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
— Stephen Colbert
Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.
— Spoken Reasons
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.
— Sophie Hannah
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
— Simon Callow
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.
I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
— Shelby Lynne
I love to write poetry.
— Shayne Ward
For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.
— Shane Koyczan
It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.
— Sean Bean
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
I'll try anything, but the pig testicles in Taiwan were a little much. Eh, it wasn't half bad. There was this one dish I had there, the translation is, 'The Monk Jumps over the Fence.' It's a fish dish with all these spices. It was beautiful, man - it was poetry. It had a whole story.
— Steven Adams
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
— Stephen Sondheim
In school, my favourite class was when we were given a subject for an essay on which we could freewheel. And poetry: I've always written it and loved the way words interact, in meaning and in sound.
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
— Stephane Mallarme
When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.
— Spike Milligan
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
— Socrates
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.
If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
I have just discovered the beautiful poetry of Soren Ulrik Thomsen. Danish is not the strongest of languages, but he uses it very well.
— Sidse Babett Knudsen
It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.
— Shura
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
I don't want to bury anything in poetry.
— Sharon Van Etten
In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy.
— Sebastian Thrun
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
