I have always loved American poetry, which is very…

When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes…

— Eavan Boland

I remember that my dad worked on cars from the '70s and '80s, and that's where my love came from: appreciating - even if…

— Mannie Fresh

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

— John Green

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

— Eliza Griswold

She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangely erotic…

— Nicholas Sparks

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

— Adrian Mitchell

The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me…

— Edward Hirsch

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan.…

— Eliza Griswold

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

— Franz Grillparzer

I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony…

— Edward Hirsch

“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies…

— W.S. Merwin

I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way than prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

“The things that will be spoken here come from the images and things that I see as well as hear. These object or random…

— The Prolific Penman

Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American…

— Jay Michaelson

I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn more about…

— Allison Joseph