Ifs Quote by Robert Hass

For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

— Bjorn Lomborg

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and…

— Robert Hass

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started…

— Amy Winehouse

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

— Tom Stoppard

“It didn’t disturb the Sumerians that their script was ill-suited for writing poetry. They didn’t invent it in order to copy spoken language, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my…

— Natasha Trethewey

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand…

— Natasha Trethewey

In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.

— Vivek Shraya

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

— Salman Rushdie

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

— Jimmy Page

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

— Anne Rice