Corny Quote by Stephen Malkmus

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

— Matthea Harvey

Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic…

— Cate Marvin

Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very…

— Alanis Morissette

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

— Teresa of Avila

I didn't study other poets and react against them. I kind of found them later and realised I was different. Quite throwaway, I suppose,…

— Tim Key

I think that the casual reader and the lyric and confession are trickily tied up together. I mean often when I read my students'…

— Shane McCrae

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

— James Laughlin

At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did…

— Mary Oliver

As a reader I don't distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain "I" poems are confessional?…

— Matthea Harvey

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.

— Francis Xavier

The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those…

— Paul Engle