I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you…

I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is…

— Thea Gilmore

Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to…

— Josephine Jacobsen

I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment…

— Robert Hass

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is…

— Erica Jong

Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's…

— Sarah Kay

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

— Adrienne Rich

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

— Rickie Lee Jones

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations…

— Northrop Frye

I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the magazine Double…

— Matthea Harvey

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be…

— Matthea Harvey

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

— Matthea Harvey

I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger…

— C. K. Williams

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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