Always Quote by J. K. Rowling

My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but when it…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with…

— Arthur Smith

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

— Czeslaw Milosz

“Poetry is a niche genre, sure, but it has a way of opening people up. It opens me up. As with music and art,…

— Nicholas Trandahl

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

— Omari Hardwick

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who…

— Andrew Motion

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which…

— Jesmyn Ward

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky