Bob Quote by Denise Duhamel

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning…

— David Toop

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.

— Mat Kearney

In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the…

— Kim Edwards

When I was learning to write I was surrounded by poets; Brian Blanchfield and Annie Guthrie were always with me as I was learning.…

— Samantha Hunt

My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice or gender…

— Shabana Azmi

In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle…

— Adam Kirsch

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound…

— Robert Morgan

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

“On Writing Poetry: Take everyday words beyond everyday talent and write them alive.”

— C.J. Heck

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

A guy named Peter Rabe wrote a batch of books for Gold Medal in the '50s, and he was absolutely the single largest influence…

— Donald E. Westlake