Embarrassed Quote by Derek Walcott

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

— Sherman Alexie

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

— Robert E. Howard

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

— Felix Dennis

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

— Gilbert Highet

I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.

— Campbell McGrath

I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and…

— Jacqueline Woodson

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

— David Biespiel

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of…

— James Laughlin

Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it…

— Joseph Brodsky

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the…

— H. P. Lovecraft