Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's… — Josephine Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“It was language I loved, not meaning. I liked poetry better when I wasn't sure what it meant. Eliot has said that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
