Destructive Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

— Rita Dove

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

— Anonymous

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come…

— Antonin Artaud

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live…

— Matthew Zapruder

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody…

— Eileen Myles

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of…

— Allison Joseph

“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that…

— Margaret Atwood

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable…

— Edward Hirsch