Audience Quote by Franz Grillparzer

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and…

— Simon Armitage

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.”

— Carl Sandburg

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't…

— Robert Graves

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

— Julie Taymor

In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for…

— Marsha Norman

[With theater] you draw the audience into the room as best you can, and in film, you can draw them into the room, you…

— Kenneth Lonergan

“(1)BEING A POET is like opening a car door & exposing yourself. (2)BEING A GOOD POET is like opening the door & exposing the…

— Chocolate Waters

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

— A. R. Ammons

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't…

— Steve Earle

“Everywhere the poems open.”

— Mary Kinzie