Believe Quote by Derek Walcott

Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to…

— Josephine Jacobsen

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

— James Dickey

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

— John Updike

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

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

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

— Matthea Harvey

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

— Sylvia Plath

I just think that limits the kinds of experiences that people can have with poetry. But, poetry will survive; I don't worry about that.…

— Edward Hirsch

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry…

— David Whyte