How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough.… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Not even the great poets can explain in words what poetry is. Do you know why? Because poetry is indeed like love,… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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