Books Quote by Felix Dennis

I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being.…

— Gina Berriault

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

— Daveed Diggs

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of…

— Paul Valery

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

— Edward Young

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write…

— John Fowles

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

— Allen Ginsberg