Adolescence Quote by Gregory Orr

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people.…

— Patti Smith

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

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass…

— Nikki Giovanni

There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your insides around.…

— C.D. Wright

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:…

— James Agee

Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to…

— Josephine Jacobsen

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it…

— Derek Walcott

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

— Lana Del Rey

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

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is…

— Edward Hirsch