Art Quote by Mary Karr

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of…

— Mary Karr

Watching my kids grow up made me realize that they would never know a world or a time without the Internet.

— Jo Webber

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived…

— Grace Paley

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.

— Nicola Formichetti

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

— Edward Hirsch

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

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

When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence,…

— Robert Crumb

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

— David Antin

I'm glad that I didn't have the Internet when I started writing. I started writing when I was 20 and didn't show a word…

— David Sedaris

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you…

— Anonymous

Knowing you are the last generation to remember life before the internet.

— Danish