Language Quote by Anne Waldman

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

— Marianne Moore

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes…

— PJ Harvey

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

— Bob Dylan

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper,…

— Sarah Kay

I am a poet, and I speak poetically.

— KRS-One

I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of…

— Bun B

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

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

— Paul Fry

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa