American Poetry Quotes

20 American Poetry quotes by 12 unique authors

• American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the… — Muriel Rukeyser
• For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do… — Stephen Dobyns
• I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. — David Biespiel
• American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. — Diane Wakoski
• Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender… — Diane Wakoski
• High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. — Diane Wakoski
• I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. — Mark Strand
• I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's… — Mark Strand
• I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. — Norman MacCaig
• I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the… — James Laughlin
• I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. — Diane Wakoski
• American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. — David Biespiel
• Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and… — Forrest Gander
• I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. — Robert Morgan
• Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. — Robert Morgan
• I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for… — Robert Morgan
• Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac — Frank O'Hara
• Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler
• She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. — James Dickey
• From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into… — Diane Wakoski

Who Wrote These American Poetry Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 20 American Poetry Quotes as follows:

• 5 American Poetry Quotes by Diane Wakoski
• 3 American Poetry Quotes by Robert Morgan
• 2 American Poetry Quotes by Mark Strand
• 2 American Poetry Quotes by David Biespiel
• 1 American Poetry Quote by Stephen Dobyns
• 1 American Poetry Quote by Norman MacCaig
• 1 American Poetry Quote by Muriel Rukeyser
• 1 American Poetry Quote by James Laughlin
• 1 American Poetry Quote by James Dickey
• 1 American Poetry Quote by Helen Vendler
• 1 American Poetry Quote by Frank O'Hara
• 1 American Poetry Quote by Forrest Gander