Failing Quote by Larry Towell

The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's…

— Alec Soth

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave…

— Alec Soth

I sometimes photograph my poems and get obsessive about this and spend a lot of time squatting over them but it's a bit demeaning…

— Tim Key

I've loved poetry since a very young age and my parents, especially my dad, he really introduced us to art when we were quite…

— Dominique Crenn

Yes, I love poetry, both to read and to write it. A first love.

— Peter Heller

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to…

— Alec Soth

I often say poetry was my first love.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the…

— Frank Horvat

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

— Lisa Joy

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship…

— Gerard Malanga

I love poetry. It's at the heart of everything I do. Poetry transforms what we call language, and uses language as the stuff to…

— Ashley Bryan