I said I wouldn’t be the kind of boyfriend who reads her…

“I go in and slip a note in Jane's locker, which I've gotten in the habit of doing. It's always just a line or…

— John Green

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

— Keira Cass

“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

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

— Lorine Niedecker

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

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

— Aleksandar Ristovic

Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

— Babette Deutsch

“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 name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine.

— Meena Harris

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”

— Graham Greene

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

— Erica Jong

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

— Carl Rakosi