Attitude Quote by Maya Angelou

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate…

— Richard Eberhart

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear…

— Helen Vendler

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it.

— Tony Harrison

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given…

— George Oppen

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

— Amiri Baraka

Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.

— Cornelius Eady

A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.

— Karl Kraus

“But it doesn't even matter how different they are, because all poems begin the same way: from something you feel inside. Like being mesmerized…

— Kat Yeh

Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to culture. It…

— Stephen Dunn