TOP 10 poetry quotes

10

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

9

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

8

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

7

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

6

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

5

Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them, Idea and friendship.

4

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

3

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

2

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

1

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.