Art Quote by Kwame Dawes

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I…

— George Saunders

In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice,…

— Adrienne Rich

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

— Helen Vendler

I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the…

— Toni Morrison

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

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

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

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

“Why should it be any surprise that people find solace in the most intimate literary genre? Poetry slows us down, cherishes small details. A…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures…

— Joyce Carol Oates

There is a set of emotions around money and new technology and advertising and that sort of thing, and there is this kind of…

— Alissa Quart