Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel too transparent in my poetry, but that's what I think the beauty of poetry is, because as transparent as… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well.… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that.… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Confessionalism relates to writers of color. I think confessional poetry is in its way very Catholic, capital C. One of the formative… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I think poetry bridges text and image. Poetry is visual in its imagery - but it requires close attention to words themselves.… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening. — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
