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Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it's…

— Amanda Gorman

“Poetry is a niche genre, sure, but it has a way of opening people up. It opens me up. As with music and art,…

— Nicholas Trandahl

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is…

— Edward Hirsch

To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

— Peleg Top

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language,…

— Pattiann Rogers

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's…

— Jane Campion

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 prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full…

— Aileen Fisher