Age Quote by Richard M. Nixon

I have spoken to many broadcasters about bringing poetry to television and they're usually not keen.

— Frank Skinner

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a big voice outside of who is a Democrat or whatever.

— Michele Lamy

Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the…

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether…

— Peter Davison

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

— Mary Karr

“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies…

— W.S. Merwin

The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not…

— Thomas Gray

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

— Franz Grillparzer

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't…

— Grace Zabriskie

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want…

— Adrienne Rich