Book Quote by Campbell McGrath

“Dawn 5am: the frogs ask what is it, what is it? It is what it is.”

— Campbell McGrath

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or…

— Campbell McGrath

The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is…

— Campbell McGrath

All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by language. Of…

— Campbell McGrath

I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new…

— Campbell McGrath

“How strange that they arrive at all, nights on planet earth.”

— Campbell McGrath

I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so…

— Campbell McGrath

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of…

— Campbell McGrath

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose…

— Campbell McGrath

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to…

— Campbell McGrath

Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.

— Campbell McGrath

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

— Campbell McGrath