Acquire Quote by Clive James

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and…

— Sarah Kay

Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.

— Yang Wanli

Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.

— Yang Wanli

I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and…

— Sylvia Plath

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and…

— Jean Cocteau

[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay…

— Nikki Giovanni

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

My work should be seen as poetry.

— Robert Wilson

There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to…

— Stephen Dunn

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

— Russell Baker

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

“Poetic Terrorism WEIRD DANCING IN ALL-NIGHT computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but…

— Hakim Bey