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In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

— Nick Laird

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

— Tom Wesselmann

I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.

— Anne Waldman

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

— Jean Cocteau

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

— Jane Campion

A lot of poems are boring and impenetrable. Mine are not. They're really simple.

— Tim Key

I'm old-fashioned enough to really still believe that the poem is an object to be memorized, venerated... I still believe in that kind of…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for…

— Ada Limon

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm,…

— James Fenton

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic