I go in and slip a note in Jane's locker, which I've…

“I said I wouldn’t be the kind of boyfriend who reads her poetry, and I’m not, but I guess I am the kind of…

— John Green

“In the great snowfall before the bomb" In the great snowfall before the bomb colored yule tree lights windows, the only glow for contemplation…

— Lorine Niedecker

“Sometimes his words were like single lines of poetry.”

— Keira Cass

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

— Lorine Niedecker

Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

— Babette Deutsch

“Nobody reads poetry anymore So who the hell are you I see bent over this book?”

— Aleksandar Ristovic

“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It can be…

— C.D. Wright

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody…

— Eileen Myles

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that…

— Joseph Brodsky

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and…

— Joanna Newsom

“It is a two-line poem, which could be really sweet, or sour at times and it depends, totally on the way we use it.”

— Saravana Kumar Murugan

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.

— Theodore Roethke

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music,…

— Paul Auster

“Yes, Dad was white, but Mom wasn’t. Which meant that to the rest of the world I was black. At Mama Ray’s, I wasn’t…

— Jennifer Latham

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

— Joseph Brodsky