I don't really like poetry; I'd rather read a novel any day.
The lyrics to some of the Beatles' songs were often quite poetic.
The play ends rather poetically with the woman dying in her lover's arms.
The little girl wrote a short poem about flowers, and then was
delighted to see it printed in the school newsletter.
The dialog in the play is actually very poetic at times.
Pablo Neruda was a famous poet from Chile, who inspired the people of his country.
Byron used to write poetry for his girlfriends and actually wrote some pretty nice
stuff.
I like poetry that rhymes.
The ancient Greeks regarded music and poetry were as almost the same thing.
In 1929, Korea was described as the "Land of the Morning Calm" by the Indian poet Tagore.
She read a collection of the poems of Leonard Cohen in her
literature class.
The people of Somalia often compose poems to remember important moments in their lives.
Apart from his career as a famous pop musician, Paul McCartney has also written an opera and a book of poetry, and put on an exhibition of his paintings.
When his Auntie Mimi threw away his poems, she never guessed that one day John Lennon would be a world-famous rock star.
Boxer Muhammad Ali was once invited to lecture on poetry at Oxford University.
The students discussed the various possible meanings of the poem.
Between 1588 and 1613, William Shakespeare wrote a total of 37 plays, more than 150 sonnets, and numerous poems.
Each student had to memorize ten verses from the poem as homework.
Just 50 years after Johannes Gutenberg invented his printing press in the mid-15th century, more than 6 million books had been published on law, science, poetry, politics, and religion.
For centuries, poetry has been used in Somalia not just as an art form, but also a political or cultural tool.
There is an Indian proverb which states that poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets.
There is an Irish proverb which states that there are three things that can't be taught: generosity, poetry, and a singing voice.
Robert Frost once said that poetry begins in delight, and ends in wisdom.
Adrian Mitchell once suggested that most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Robert Louis Stevenson once said that wine is bottled poetry.
Christopher Fry once said that poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
Discussion question: How do you feel about poetry?
Find someone who enjoys reading poetry.