Love Quote by Mikis Theodorakis

“If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's…

— Kathy Acker

My work should be seen as poetry.

— Robert Wilson

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr

“I reached for the notebook which was always close by. All thoughts of composing epic poems of Greek heroes had left me. The words…

— Nancy Moser

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

“Another struggle has been the struggle to keep the value of a local and particular character, of a particular culture in this awful maelstrom,…

— Ezra Pound

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from…

— Edward Hirsch

“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in the past,…

— Alok Mishra

“Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.”

— Wallace Stegner

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

— F. Sionil Jose

“Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.”

— Helen Keller