Driven Quote by James Arthur

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent…

— Sarah Kay

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of…

— Philip Larkin

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

— Andre Dubus

I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course,…

— Robert Indiana

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language…

— Rita Dove

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and…

— Carol Ann Duffy