American poetry Quote by Peter Gizzi

“Poetry is about finding the best way to plagiarize the reader’s ideas, thoughts, emotions, feelings and memories, their past present or future states of…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Poetry: a weapon to articulate the world the way I see it.~”

— Niki Herd

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

— Norman MacCaig

“The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily…

— John Dewey

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

— Helen Vendler

“What I really want is to be recognized as a writer; that someday, my poetry — this is an interesting paradox — would be…

— Harley King

“What an incredible amount of poetry, of novels, of sociological solutions to the ills of the world! One supposes that poetry is written to…

— Augusto Monterroso

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

— Susan Griffin

“I write poetry not for publication but merely to kill time. Airplanes are a good place to write poetry and then throw it away.…

— Irish" Wayne Kelly

“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their…

— Andrei Codrescu

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

“Poetry has a mysterious way of illustrating the landscapes of life. One can't help but love its audacity to record the journey.”

— L.v. Jones