Find Quote by John Burnside

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

— Sherman Alexie

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

— Donovan

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

— Paul Muldoon

The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.

— Anonymous

When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country…

— May Sarton

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking…

— Laura Nyro

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

— Paul Fry

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

— Philip Larkin

You speak As one who fed on poetry.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

— Virginia Woolf

“There was a time when I do not understand poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Poetry had in the hands of various people become a place for inconvenient knowledge insofar as it was a place for knowledge at all.…

— Robert Hass