Categorization Quote by Robert Morgan

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got…

— Sylvia Plath

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

— Anonymous

I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses I took…

— Juliana Spahr

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes…

— Virginia Woolf

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn…

— Sylvia Plath

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte

“When I examine my mind and try to discern clearly in the matter, I cannot satisfy myself that there are any such things as…

— A.E. Housman

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use…

— Mahmoud Darwish

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg