Camera Quote by Michael Rosen

I have spoken to many broadcasters about bringing poetry to television and they're usually not keen.

— Frank Skinner

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

— Edward Hirsch

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

— David Starkey

Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual…

— Jonathan Lethem

I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so…

— Eileen Myles

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

— Harry Callahan

We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level…

— Rita Dove

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

— Helen Bevington