Audience Quote by Adrian Mitchell

Poetry fills clubs, halls and venues. Poets and poems can talk to the deepest feelings and to the silliest. It can be like stand-up…

— Michael Rosen

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

— Diane Wakoski

My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but when it…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't…

— Robert Graves

Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.

— Amitava Kumar

There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your insides around.…

— C.D. Wright

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners…

— Christopher Logue

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or…

— Tony Harrison

I have spoken to many broadcasters about bringing poetry to television and they're usually not keen.

— Frank Skinner

"Poetry" refers to the quite challenging and quite resistant sets of words put together to be admired and interpreted by people who are already…

— Stephen Burt

All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe lyrics don't…

— David Berman

Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind of poetry…

— Stephen Burt