Basketball Quote by Jim Carroll

Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor.…

— Stephen Dunn

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.

— Jake Adam York

“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of…

— Jim Carroll

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

— Lawrence Durrell

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

— Gail Carriger

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

— Anonymous

“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.”

— Mary Crow

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

— Sarah Kay

To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible…

— Frank O'Hara