Amicable Quote by Michael Bassey Johnson

“For all but the sliver of poetry fans, over the past forty years popular song lyrics have been the nation’s poetry.”

— John McWhorter

“To be lyrical you've got to stuff your ears up and keep other people out of your life- if you have one.”

— Alfred Chester

I'm not a great poetry fan.

— Rupert Everett

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

“Most poems I’ve seen are about love or sex or the stars. You poets are obsessed with stars. Falling stars. Shooting stars. Dying stars.”

— Nicola Yoon

Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against…

— Alice Oswald

“Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, the only way to get…

— Elizabeth Alexander

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

— Omari Hardwick

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

— Sara Genn

“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.”

— Charles Bukowski

“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Now, you might think that because there are more poets than ever, there might be more opportunities for poets than ever. And you’d be…

— Jim Behrle