Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation. — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it. — Andrei Voznesensky Copy Share Image
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. — Maxwell Bodenheim Copy Share Image
Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe. — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed Copy Share Image
20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it. — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
You'll find i-poetry, you'll find that you can download poetry, that you can stuff your i-pod with recorded poetry. So just to… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago. — William Alfred Quayle Copy Share Image
Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
