I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be…

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

— Gary Shteyngart

People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people…

— Rajneesh

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

— Peter Davison

I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people like my…

— Tony Harrison

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

“I always get a little bit irritated when people talk about 'bringing poetry to the people' especially those poet - performers who seem to…

— Michael Donaghy

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing…

— Theo Dorgan

I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people…

— John Ashbery

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

— Margaret Walker

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

— Richard Eyre

Hymns are the poetry of the people.

— John Betjeman

I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid, my fantasy…

— Annie Baker

I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.

— Kit Harington

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

— Umberto Eco

You make me want to write bad poetry.

— Anonymous