Atlantic Quote by Peter Davison

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the…

— Mark Strand

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

— Norman MacCaig

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

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could…

— Rachel Carson

“Real poetry is like a sail at the open sea.”

— Eva Sonenberg

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

— Eavan Boland

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

— Paul Ruffin

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

— Helen Vendler

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

— Robert Bly

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

“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

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live…

— Matthew Zapruder