Poetry Quote by Philip Roth

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

— Gerrit Smith

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will…

— Matthew Arnold

I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the…

— Christian Wiman

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader.…

— Simon Armitage

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

— Helen Vendler

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving

“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my…

— Alexandria Clarke

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

— Richard Dawkins

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

— Erica Jong

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”

— Graham Greene