My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash. — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book,… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you.… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
