Anesthesia Quote by Amir Sulaiman

When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in…

— James Arthur

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines…

— Robert Pinsky

If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my…

— Stephen Dunn

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

Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and…

— Sarah Kay

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and…

— Nina Simone

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. But I…

— Kay Ryan

Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a…

— Gabriela Mistral

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the…

— Jonathan W. Galassi