Books Quote by Theo Dorgan

A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted…

— Billy Collins

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets…

— Criss Jami

I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one's interested in the experiences…

— Billy Collins

Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you…

— Billy Collins

...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

— Billy Collins

Hymns are the poetry of the people.

— John Betjeman

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

— Peter Davison

I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people like my…

— Tony Harrison

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

“I always get a little bit irritated when people talk about 'bringing poetry to the people' especially those poet - performers who seem to…

— Michael Donaghy

I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people…

— John Ashbery

I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and…

— Annie Baker