Coast Quote by Victoria Chang

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

— Victoria Chang

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

— Anonymous

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Charles Olson

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because…

— Roger McGough

We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level…

— Rita Dove

I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost…

— Victoria Chang

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

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who…

— Andrew Motion

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

— John Ashbery

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.

— George Murray