Oh, well,” Sands said, thinking that when passion stirred…

“None of us is immune to shipwreck. Come, beckons the fatal shore: come and die on my white sands, it said. And we do.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

— Al Sharpton

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd say I…

— Stephen Dunn

“If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's…

— Kathy Acker

I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing.…

— James Laughlin

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

— Alice Notley

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that…

— Joan Larkin

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their…

— Clifton Fadiman

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

— Ali Smith

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind…

— Allen Tate

“I had never thought of haiku, or any kind of poetry for that matter, as a social activity.”

— Abigail Friedman

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life,…

— Kevin Hart

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

— Ali Smith