Affecting Quote by Jim Jarmusch

Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them…

— Fay Weldon

Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer.

— Elif Batuman

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real…

— Vito Acconci

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality,…

— Jason Reynolds

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

— Helen Vendler

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

— Selima Hill

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

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

— Tavares Strachan

I think poems belong as much in the news pages as the literary pages. A lot of people throw aside the literary pages! Whereas…

— Tony Harrison

We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level…

— Rita Dove

Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can stay in…

— Claudia Rankine