Think Poetry Quotes

11 Think Poetry quotes by 10 unique authors

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
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just… — Jane Campion
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind… — James Laughlin
I think poetry is best read to oneself. — Rickie Lee Jones
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way. — Carol Ann Duffy
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life.… — Erica Jong
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence… — Robert Morgan
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. — Peter Davison
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a… — Michel Houellebecq
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary,… — Philip Levine
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something… — Robert Morgan

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