Body Quote by Margaret Walker

The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.

— Paul Mellon

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

— Gary Shteyngart

People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people…

— Rajneesh

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

— Peter Davison

I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people like my…

— Tony Harrison

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

“I always get a little bit irritated when people talk about 'bringing poetry to the people' especially those poet - performers who seem to…

— Michael Donaghy

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing…

— Theo Dorgan

I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people…

— John Ashbery

I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and…

— Annie Baker

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

— Richard Eyre

Hymns are the poetry of the people.

— John Betjeman

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the…

— Susan Sontag

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a…

— Anonymous

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside…

— Alfred de Musset