Happens Quote by Russell Simmons

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest…

— Rita Dove

I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things that weren't…

— Katie Melua

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

— John Kinsella

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

— Wislawa Szymborska

“Publishing a book, Watching its ways Force me to look At a screen for days "Be still, be still", My heart screams for life…

— Eric Overby

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

— Roman Jakobson

I was doing a poetry thing in Tottenham and I remember walking down this road looking for the address, the pub where it was…

— Tim Key

Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing…

— Gertrude Stein

When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out!

— John Cooper Clarke

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

— Antonio Tabucchi

I want to promote positivity.

— Michael Franti

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died,…

— Caroline Kennedy

I have never been in a band. But in my grand day of cabaret at Les Deux Cafes, I was doing this poetry of…

— Michele Lamy

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between…

— Sakyong Mipham

Around 10 years old I started being into church and being around the church. I started doing poetry - I was doing all clean…

— Cupcakke