Beautiful Quote by Chris Abani

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

— K'naan

Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that everything I've…

— Jack Driscoll

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

— Tom Paulin

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an…

— John Burnside

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

— Steve Earle

I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative. so, I…

— Gregory Orr

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course,…

— Robert Indiana

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense…

— Seamus Heaney