Building Quote by Ben Lerner

I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again…

— George Murray

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

— David Whyte

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from…

— Guy Davenport

I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.…

— Adrian Matejka

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time…

— Sharon Olds

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

— Robert Morgan

Poetry keeps longing alive.

— Robert Bly

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern…

— Matthew Specktor