Creative Quote by Mark Strand

I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was…

— Natasha Trethewey

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

— Cynthia Ozick

“I'm on the New York State Council for the Arts now, and every so often some other member talks about sending notices to college…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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 an anxiety meets a technique.

— Lawrence Durrell

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read…

— Mark Strand

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things…

— Mark Strand

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the…

— Mark Strand

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in…

— Rachel Cusk

When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in the English…

— Randall Park