Think Poetry Quotes

I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.

— Maria Teresa Horta

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

— Derek Walcott

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

— Rickie Lee Jones

“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

— Natasha Trethewey

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to…

— Alice Walker

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is…

— Robert Morgan

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

— Philip Larkin

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

— Adrienne Rich

I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't…

— Edward Hirsch

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of…

— Edward Hirsch

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

— Matthea Harvey

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

— David Starkey

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size,…

— Robert Morgan

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read…

— Michel Houellebecq

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think…

— Simon Armitage

I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position.…

— Adrienne Rich

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of…

— Diane Wakoski

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence.…

— Robert Hass

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other…

— Francesca Lia Block

I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself.…

— Kay Ryan

“I don't have a poetry section in the bookshop. (Don't have but should have, I have begun to think. The poetry, like…

— Claudia Fitzherbert

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell…

— Northrop Frye

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of…

— Kevin Hart

I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even…

— Sarah Kay

The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once…

— Billy Collins

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

“Recently, a judge of the prestigious 2014 British Forward Prize for Poetry was moved to observe that “there is an awful lot…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

— Robert Bly

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

— Fred D'Aguiar

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

— Peter Davison

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

— Edward Hirsch

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction…

— Edward Hirsch

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

— Diane Wakoski

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in…

— Carol Ann Duffy