Ever since I was a kid, I've always been interested in the…

“I’ve always been a fan of the melancholy, like Morrissey. I grew up playing classical nocturnes like Chopin and Debussy on piano, so I…

— Blake Lewis

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

— Jamaica Kincaid

“ I Like For You To Be Still I like for you to be still It is as though you are absent And you…

— Pablo Neruda

The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon…

— John Dos Passos

... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its…

— Marianne Moore

An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to…

— Stephen Spender

Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.

— Compay Segundo

'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their…

— Natasha Trethewey

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

— Ernesto Cardenal

I'm interested in the poetry of reality.

— Christophe Lemaire

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a…

— Kenneth Koch

“I had a boyfriend once who sent me--in a plastic bag, so it wouldn't drip--a real cow's heart with a real arrow stuck through…

— Margaret Atwood

I'm only interested in poetry.

— Charles Bukowski

I remember being really interested in the sad parts of Los Angeles, of which there are many, and knowing we weren't up in the…

— Mary Harron

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots,…

— Robert Bringhurst