Poetry : (44) " I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings. " - Jonathan Galassi " I love Tennessee Williams; as a playwright, he’s so poetic. " - Matthew Bourne " I gave my voice to poetry. " - Juan Felipe Herrera " My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. " - Thomas Hardy " I’m so happy to be an advocate for poetry. " - Edward Hirsch " I’ve said what I’m prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you’re going to tell them a whole lot more. " - Wendy Cope " Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. " - Virginia Woolf " Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth – the true poet is very near the oracle. " - Edwin Hubbel Chapin " There was a time when poetry often made its way to vinyl; take a deep dive, for example, into the beat poets’ countercultural albums of the 1950s to ’80s. " - Elizabeth Flock " I love to write poetry. " - Shayne Ward