Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“For grammar it [poetry] might have, but it needs it not; being so easy in itself, and so void of those cumbersome… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry needs to be "easily understandable." First of all, there are often complexities of syntax, form, unfamiliar absences, etc.,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
![“For grammar it [poetry] might have, but it needs it not; being so easy in itself, and so void of those cumbersome differences of cases, genders, moods, and tenses, which, I think, was a piece of the Tower of Babylon's curse, that a man shoult be put to school to learn his mother-tongue.” quote by Philip Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e99/philip-sidney-2095_grammar_for-grammar-it-poetry-might-have-but-it_2572481.png)
