Grants Quote by David Whyte

I rely on poetry or literature to keep me centered before I go onstage because it reminds me to be present.

— Carrie Coon

At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all except for…

— Rita Dove

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

— Omari Hardwick

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

— Cate Marvin

I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical…

— Mike Patton

I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on…

— Orlando Bloom

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

— Mary Oliver

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures…

— Jane Hirshfield

When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural,…

— James Arthur

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who…

— Andrew Motion

I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading.…

— Albert Goldbarth