So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even. — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words… — David Daiches Copy Share Image
I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry. — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour… — Edward Dowden Copy Share Image
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Poetry is an ongoing conversation with the past and the future and the present. I'm interested in that continuity, in that way… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
