Great man Quote by Mark Strand

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a…

— Viggo Mortensen

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's…

— Jane Campion

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come…

— Antonin Artaud

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

— Marie Ponsot

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it…

— Tony Kushner

It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public.

— Tony Harrison