Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.