When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry. — Eve Merriam Copy Share Image
I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we… — John Burnside 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
“The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Sitting with some of the other members of the Scholastic Decathlon team, quiet, studious Martha Cox heard snatches of the lunchtime poetry.… — Alice Alfonsi Copy Share Image
As long as the sun shall rise goes the old lover's vow, but we are children of a scientific age and have… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
![“Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you…” quote by John Cusack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ee/john-cusack-3209_asks_poets-are-political-they-have-to-be-refl_951168.jpg)
