Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend…

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

— Anish Kapoor

It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.

— Isabelle Kocher

I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my trouble with…

— Alex Lemon

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does…

— Arthur Hopcraft

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

— Robert Morgan

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

— Eugenio Montale

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”

— Raymond Chandler

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a…

— Edward Hirsch

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but…

— Diane Wakoski

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

— James Fenton

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

— Allen Ginsberg

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not…

— Harold Bloom

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

— Geoffrey Hill

“In love it does not matter what you say, but what you feel. In poetry it does not matter what you feel, but what…

— Luis de Góngora