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I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to…

— Denise Duhamel

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who…

— Andrew Motion

Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece…

— Rita Dove

Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn't feel…

— Eliza Griswold

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an…

— John Burnside

“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

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all…

— Thom Gunn

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread…

— Michel Houellebecq