Anxiety Quote by Lawrence Durrell

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

— Mark Strand

I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal link-ups. I…

— Michael Longley

When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing…

— C. K. Williams

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that…

— Billy Collins

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

— Mary Oliver

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

— Wendy Cope

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

Poetry is the dark side of the moon,

— Charles Wright

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of…

— Goldwin Smith