About Quote by Derek Walcott

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would…

— Carol Ann Duffy

I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not…

— Natasha Trethewey

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a…

— John Keats

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

— Tracy K. Smith

Don't send a poet to London.

— Heinrich Heine

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or…

— Tony Harrison

I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me that I…

— Allison Joseph

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

— Robert Lowell

Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not…

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

— Selima Hill

Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.

— Amitava Kumar