Ability Quote by James Laughlin

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to…

— Kenneth Clark

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

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be…

— Matthea Harvey

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

— Anonymous

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never…

— David Whyte

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which…

— Helen Bevington

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

— Robert Hass

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