Crisis Quote by Derek Walcott

At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in…

— Blake Morrison

The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But…

— Matthew Zapruder

Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it…

— Tony Kushner

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ...…

— T. S. Eliot

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

— Marguerite Young

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

— T. S. Eliot

“Heroic poetry tends in its simplest form to be concerned with immediate events and local heroes. A certain length of tradition is required before…

— Richard Barber

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read…

— Mark Strand

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

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music,…

— Alex Lemon

What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you.…

— Daveed Diggs