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Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

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'm a poet who can whine in meter

— Sherman Alexie

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

— Michael Longley

I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and…

— Jacqueline Woodson

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

— Robert Morgan

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a…

— Viggo Mortensen

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

— May Sarton

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

— Lucille Clifton

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we…

— Tracy K. Smith

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

— Toi Derricotte

Poetry is priceless… a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

— Marie Ponsot