3 December 2020 Corin Nemec I’ve done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I’ve compiled a book of poetry that’s completed, and two others I’m working on.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
3 December 2020 Mark Strand I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet’s personality.
3 December 2020 Margaret Walker The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
3 December 2020 Andrew Motion In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Edwards I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
3 December 2020 James Laughlin I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don’t say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.
3 December 2020 Seamus Heaney The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
3 December 2020 Robert Frost Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
3 December 2020 James Gates Percival The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
3 December 2020 Paul Muldoon The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
3 December 2020 Robert Morgan I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
3 December 2020 Eugenio Montale However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
3 December 2020 John Drinkwater We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order – poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
3 December 2020 Douglas Dunn A poem can have an impact, but you can’t expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
3 December 2020 Robert Morgan A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
3 December 2020 J. Courtney Sullivan Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
3 December 2020 Denis Johnson All the modern verse plays, they’re terrible they’re mostly about the poetry. It’s more important that the play is first.
3 December 2020 Candace Bushnell I know I’m not a wordsmith. And I don’t write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it’s really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
3 December 2020 Thomas Harrison No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.
3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
3 December 2020 Samantha Morton I’m not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent – you can’t just do it like that.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
