About Quote by C. K. Williams

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

— Margaret Atwood

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved…

— Laura Riding

“In the poetry of attention, poems are not problems.”

— Donald Revell

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for…

— Wallace Stevens

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

— Caroline Kennedy

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

— James Fenton

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

— Jane Campion

Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.

— Robert Hass

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language…

— Rita Dove

I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.

— Edward Hirsch

It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most…

— Mary Oliver

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek…

— Octavio Paz