American poetry Quote by Robert Hass

I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only elective, so…

— Robert Hass

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

— Norman MacCaig

Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it…

— Joseph Brodsky

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the…

— Mark Strand

I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish poetry and…

— Edward Hirsch

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

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

— Francois Truffaut

My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read…

— Lucia Perillo

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

— Derek Walcott

I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know…

— Sam Hamill

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

— James Broughton

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann