I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some… — Marcus Mumford Copy Share Image
Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.'… — Leslie Scalapino Copy Share Image
Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in… — Phill Jupitus Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life. — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
