Ecstatic Quote by Erica Jong

we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most…

— Erica Jong

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

— Paul Claudel

Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act…

— Herbert Read

“The word poetry comes from the Greek word poiesis which just means “a making”. So if you’ve made it, it’s poetry. Even if it’s…

— Benedict Smith

“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the…

— Audre Lorde

The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely clapped...in retrospect…

— Phil Kay

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

— Keith Carter

Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in this age…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to…

— Sarah Kay

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper,…

— Sarah Kay

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry…

— Jim Jarmusch