Here and now Quote by P. G. Wodehouse

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

— Michael Faraday

“Poetry is not a lost art. Poetry is better than ever. Of course you’ve got the usual gang of idiots (as the Mad magazine…

— Stephen King

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost…

— Clive James

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

— Sandra M. Gilbert

“Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric, in its modern form, would…

— C.S. Lewis

“Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out.”

— bell hooks

“I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of a ruined…

— Samuel R. Delany

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

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

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Paul Ruffin

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its…

— John Keats