I can't write poetry like you, but I can talk with…

To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting…

— Amir Sulaiman

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

— Ellen Hopkins

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for…

— Sarah Kay

What we call life is only talk of nature.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I find it very worrying that we don’t talk about nature anymore. We talk about natural resources as if everything had a price tag.…

— George Schaller

The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity.

— William Shakespeare

It is funny how we talk about nature as this separate entity when we are nature, and nature is us.

— Jon Hopkins

I want to talk about the nature of human beings or how we're evolving as a race.

— Joe Rogan

“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.”

— William Everson

Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say…

— Orson Scott Card

When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as…

— Ana Castillo

“She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.”

— Colleen Hoover

For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in…

— Tony Harrison

Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to…

— Josephine Jacobsen

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco