Art Quote by Tony Harrison

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

— George Orwell

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

— Mary Oliver

I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or…

— Jeanette Winterson

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

— Joan Larkin

For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property…

— Robert Pinsky

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

— Billy Collins

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives…

— Anonymous

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

— Charles Olson

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan.…

— Eliza Griswold

“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