Editing Quote by James Tate

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly…

— Peter Davison

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

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

— Lana Del Rey

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is God's work.

— Katy Lederer

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

— William Beckett

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

— Derek Walcott