America Quote by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of…

— Aberjhani

“And inevitably there always crept into our discussions the figure of Whitman, that one lone figure which America has produced in the course of…

— Henry Miller

Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.

— Kwame Dawes

I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.

— Anne Waldman

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of…

— Michael N. Castle

“She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.”

— Colleen Hoover

“I am an i poet.”

— E.E. Cummings

“She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they expected you…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“[Judith Shakespeare] lives in you and in me [...] she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only…

— Virginia Woolf

Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems…

— Richard Blanco

“Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry] made it…

— Ariel Gore

I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that's Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez,…

— Amanda Gorman