Acne Quote by Umberto Eco

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

— Rachel Zucker

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

— Tom Wesselmann

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:…

— James Agee

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

— Tove Ditlevsen

“When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious- because of…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

— Saul Williams

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst…

— Franz Kafka

Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody.

— Richard Siken