Feels Quote by Junot Diaz

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

— Sara Genn

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

— Gemma Files

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think…

— Thom Gunn

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

— Philip Levine

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I think great poetry is enormously powerful.

— Michael Cunningham

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and…

— Sarah Kay

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

— Omari Hardwick

My work should be seen as poetry.

— Robert Wilson

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a…

— Phyllis Gotlieb

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got…

— Sylvia Plath

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

— Nick Laird