Book Quote by Nikki Giovanni

My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read…

— Lucia Perillo

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own…

— James Laughlin

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

— Andre Dubus

As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in…

— Henry Rollins

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your…

— John Cooper Clarke

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an…

— John Burnside

I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course,…

— Robert Indiana

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall