3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg We read Robert Browning’s poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
3 December 2020 Fernand Leger What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic – this is by no means the same thing.
3 December 2020 Peter Davison The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
3 December 2020 Tom Wesselmann I didn’t want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
3 December 2020 Naomi Klein We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we’re not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
3 December 2020 Simon Armitage I’d never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I’ve always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.
3 December 2020 Lisa Bonet A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We’ve tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.
3 December 2020 Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
3 December 2020 James Schuyler Well, if this is poetry, I’m certainly never going to write any myself.
3 December 2020 Edmund Clarence Stedman Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
3 December 2020 Peter Porter I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn’t read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.
3 December 2020 Ian Hamilton Finlay But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry – still.
3 December 2020 Jacques Maritain Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
3 December 2020 Lynda Barry The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Koch As for political poetry, as it’s usually defined, it seems there’s very little good political poetry.
3 December 2020 Danielle Steel In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
3 December 2020 Nikki Giovanni Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream – they go together.
