College Quote by Brooks Atkinson

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

— Brooks Atkinson

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become…

— Cate Marvin

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

— May Sarton

“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write,…

— W. H. Auden

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

— T. S. Eliot

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.

— Sheri S. Tepper

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

— Peter Davison

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

— William Wordsworth

“I appear to be embarked on the turbid waters of poetry and scholarship. And a career in poetry and knowledge is as hard to…

— Robert Lowell