Poetry Requires Quotes
- I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world,… — Christian Wiman
- Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is… — C.D. Wright
- It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But… — Simon Armitage