Believer Quote by Adrienne Rich

Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to…

— Karen Armstrong

People get anxious about dividing sorts of poetry, say Confessionalism from political poetry. But Confessionalism is very much an expression of racial privilege and…

— Shane McCrae

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody…

— Eileen Myles

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

— Grace Cavalieri

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

— Derek Walcott

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and…

— Sarah Kay

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

— F. Sionil Jose

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

— Katy Lederer

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

— Edith Hamilton

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do…

— Adrienne Rich

Hymns are the poetry of the people.

— John Betjeman

One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.

— Marilynne Robinson