Active Quote by Simon Armitage

“I don't have a poetry section in the bookshop. (Don't have but should have, I have begun to think. The poetry, like everything else,…

— Claudia Fitzherbert

It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.

— Campbell McGrath

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot…

— Thomas M. Disch

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.

— Roger Zelazny

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's…

— Jane Campion

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've…

— Edward Hirsch

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

— Paul Muldoon

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

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver