By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor. — Marie Ponsot Copy Share Image
Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified. — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people. — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable. — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse? — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of… — Vic Fuentes Copy Share Image
The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.” — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right… — Hetty King Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
