1960s Quote by Robert Hass

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at…

— David Byrne

I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary…

— Jonathan Ames

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive play, expressive…

— Edward Hirsch

“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring…

— David Byrne

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is…

— Adrienne Rich

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not…

— Mark Strand

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

— Anonymous

If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than…

— Walt Whitman

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a…

— Alice Eve

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on…

— Seamus Heaney

When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way…

— Andrei Tarkovsky