Attainment Quote by Laura Riding

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

— Philip Levine

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good…

— Amber Tamblyn

“When did most of us stop being poets?”

— Michael St. George

I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not…

— Philip Levine

“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

— Nicholas Sparks

My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to…

— Sarah Kay

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

— Josephine Hart

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

— John Darnielle

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

— Lailah Gifty Akita

It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from…

— Matthew Zapruder

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the…

— Philip Larkin

“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of…

— Zbigniew Herbert