The things we fear about poetry are the things that are…

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

— Muriel Rukeyser

I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out…

— Denise Duhamel

“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.”

— Mary Crow

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to…

— Jason Newsted

“Ah!' said Michel, tempted, 'you have modern poems?' 'Of course. For instance, Martillac's 'Electric Harmonies,' which won a prize last year from the Academic…

— Jules Verne

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

— Stephen Malkmus

“I'm made of poetry and other things that people don't really care about at all.”

— Karishma Magavani

My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's…

— Jamila Woods

“Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.”

— Adrienne Rich

“Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape,…

— Aase Berg

The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all…

— Claire Tomalin

Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any…

— Robert Hass

“Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.”

— Hafiz

Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in…

— Thomas B. Macaulay