Giving Quote by Mark Haddon

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent…

— Sarah Kay

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

— Peleg Top

I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry…

— Ellen Bass

I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich,…

— Pattiann Rogers

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

— Joan Larkin

Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and…

— Sarah Kay

I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find a good…

— Mark Rylance

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

I love poetry - just to read it and be around it.

— Scott Glenn

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright