Democracy Quote by Brendan Kennelly

“Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days…

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude, it has…

— Brendan Kennelly

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

— Adrienne Rich

Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more sure that…

— Matthew Zapruder

I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that…

— Billy Collins

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

— Mary Oliver

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

— Wendy Cope

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

Poetry is the dark side of the moon,

— Charles Wright

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of…

— Goldwin Smith