Newspaper Quote by Tony Harrison

I think poems belong as much in the news pages as the literary pages. A lot of people throw aside the literary pages! Whereas…

— Tony Harrison

News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.

— Eliza Griswold

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to…

— Campbell McGrath

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it…

— Derek Walcott

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of…

— James Laughlin

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

— James Fenton

“The act of love and the act of poetry Are not compatible With the reading aloud of a newspaper”

— André Breton

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

— William Carlos Williams

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

— Paul Muldoon

Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used to be…

— William Monahan

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley