I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the…

The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery…

— Hannah Kent

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

Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.

— Muriel Rukeyser

“For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both…

— Kathleen Raine

Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind of poetry…

— Stephen Burt

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

— Edward Hirsch

“My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of…

— Jeremy Aldana

Habit has a kind of poetry.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are…

— Kevin Hart

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