Documentaries Quote by Simon Armitage

“What I really want is to be recognized as a writer; that someday, my poetry — this is an interesting paradox — would be…

— Harley King

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

— Ada Lovelace

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is…

— Ken Tucker

I really enjoy doing my poems. So that's it; I'm condemned in some way to be a poet.

— Tim Key

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

— Ernesto Cardenal

My work should be seen as poetry.

— Robert Wilson

“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in the past,…

— Alok Mishra

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

— William Cowper

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

— John Keats