My Poetry Quotes

44 My Poetry quotes by 39 unique authors

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one:… — Margaret Atwood
For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything. — Jim Dine
I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits… — John Ashbery
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's… — Kenneth Koch
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I… — Jonas Mekas
Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and… — Nizar Qabbani
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. — Adrian Mitchell
I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I am labeled everywhere… — Raegan Butcher
My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth. — Sarah Kay
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and… — Tracy K. Smith
Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided… — William Butler Yeats
Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's… — Diane Wakoski
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. — Diane Wakoski
Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity? — Rabindranath Tagore
Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody. — Richard Siken
I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems. — Margaret Atwood
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of… — Anne Stevenson
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the fear… — John Betjeman
Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and… — Spoken Reasons
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. — Norman MacCaig
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry… — Sonja Sohn
I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican. — Stevie Smith
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. — James Broughton
Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. — Rick Fox
My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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