Family Quote by Tony Harrison

The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.

— Amanda Gorman

I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when…

— Adrienne Rich

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

— Edward Hirsch

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

— Mark Rothko

My family has always been inclined to any form of art.

— Manini Mishra

I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of creation that…

— Morgan Llywelyn

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.

— Miller Williams

Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of…

— Michael Ayrton

Writers…born not in the Halls of Education…but in the fires of necessity. Masters not of prose, form, language, or a perceived command of the…

— Vladislas Nikilovic

If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of literature or…

— Eliza Griswold

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

— Marilynne Robinson