Poetry Quote by C.M. Kornbluth

Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely…

— Dan Bejar

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never…

— David Whyte

There is a set of emotions around money and new technology and advertising and that sort of thing, and there is this kind of…

— Alissa Quart

“On Writing Poetry: Take everyday words beyond everyday talent and write them alive.”

— C.J. Heck

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have…

— Boris Pasternak

“Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.”

— Atticus

There is an actor's responsibility in presenting the emotional content of the lyrics to an audience. But whether you do that in a straightforward…

— Kurt Elling

“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their…

— Andrei Codrescu

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

“Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.”

— Juvenal

“Recently, a judge of the prestigious 2014 British Forward Prize for Poetry was moved to observe that “there is an awful lot of very…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

“Poetry is not for profit. Poetry is for Posterity.”

— Michael P. Naughton