Etel's poetry really changed everything. Her poems are a way to connect with my consciousness and emotions, there's a romance to them,… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language… — Teju Cole 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
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it,… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up.… — Jim Jarmusch 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
I'm a jazz guy and a Bruce Springsteen guy. So I wanted something more current, and edgier, and angrier. So I asked… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I always thought books were just the canon, things I couldn't identify with. And then I was introduced to really amazing multicultural… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
