Balance Quote by Ian Mcewan

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things…

— Mark Strand

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a…

— Kevin Powers

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different…

— Alice Oswald

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

— Nicholson Baker

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times…

— Billy Collins

“Strand sees his main skill as just paying attention to the textures and rhythms of life, being receptive to the multifaceted, constantly changing yet…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot…

— Thomas M. Disch

“There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

— Gaston Bachelard