Creative Quote by Robert Hass

I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and…

— Sandra Cisneros

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with…

— Cate Marvin

I don't consider genre while writing.

— Karin Tidbeck

To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art.…

— Cate Marvin

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

— Mark Strand

Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end…

— Achy Obejas

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels.…

— Ben Okri

“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

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

— Samuel R. Delany

“Poetry is a niche genre, sure, but it has a way of opening people up. It opens me up. As with music and art,…

— Nicholas Trandahl

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

I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

— Paloma Elsesser