Allowance Quote by James Arthur

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 think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

— Adrienne Rich

My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read…

— Lucia Perillo

The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your…

— John Cooper Clarke

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but…

— John Keats

I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think…

— Craig Ferguson

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

“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 what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

— Georges Simenon