Anybody Quote by Viggo Mortensen

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read…

— Mark Strand

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

— Marie Ponsot

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

— Billy Collins

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

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable…

— Robert Bringhurst

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

— Abraham Verghese

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

— Charles Olson

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.

— Roger Zelazny

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and…

— Alice Walker

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

— Toi Derricotte