Art Quote by Nikki Giovanni

There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle,…

— Anonymous

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman

“Prayer is that which conveys a message to God, who is either known or knowing, more or less by definition. Poetry is that which…

— G.C. Waldrep

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad…

— Vikram Seth

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

— Margaret Atwood

I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was not my…

— Matthew Zapruder

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific…

— Margaret Atwood

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

— Caroline Kennedy

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are…

— Kevin Hart

“My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me”

— Countee Cullen

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they…

— Natasha Trethewey

“what is poetry, how can I even think of meter, metaphor, as you lie dying, swollen & agonized in your pretty gown”

— Sandra M. Gilbert