Poetry Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“The Old Poets Of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I…

— Mary Oliver

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

— Robert Morgan

At first I was laboring under the impression that Chinese lyrics didn't rhyme. That turned out to be untrue - they don't rhyme in…

— Stephin Merritt

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

— Tom Verlaine

I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends and people…

— Bei Dao

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

“Few Chinese who write can write all of the spoken Chinese words that they can understand. To become significantly learned in the Chinese writing…

— Walter J. Ong

“English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty thousand characters in Chinese.”

— Xiaolu Guo

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has…

— Marilyn Hacker

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier