Areas Quote by Edna Longley

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not…

— Mark Strand

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets,…

— Erica Jong

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

Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing…

— John Cusack

Poetry is basically built out of what I think of as being a fairly political act at its core: "I'm not going to listen…

— Ted Genoways

Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world, what Stevens…

— Simon Critchley

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan.…

— Eliza Griswold

Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it…

— Kim Hyesoon

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life,…

— Kevin Hart