Accessibility Quote by Nick Hornby

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.”

— Himmilicious

I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult role.

— Anne Waldman

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

— Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

— Ambrose Bierce

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

— Diane Wakoski

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

— Anonymous

“Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,”

— Paul Ruffin

“Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape,…

— Aase Berg

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

— Helen Vendler

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

— Jorge Luis Borges