3 December 2020 Saul Williams More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.
3 December 2020 Thomas Harrison A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
3 December 2020 M. H. Abrams If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
3 December 2020 George Murray I’ve often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it’s been doing to my poetry when I’m not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order.
3 December 2020 Cheryl Hines Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
3 December 2020 Hart Crane And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I’ll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
3 December 2020 Salvatore Quasimodo Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man’s expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
3 December 2020 Simon Armitage If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
3 December 2020 Paul Muldoon That’s one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one’s little turn – that you’re just part of the great crop, as it were.
3 December 2020 Eugenio Montale For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
3 December 2020 Salvatore Quasimodo Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
3 December 2020 Frederick William Robertson The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
3 December 2020 Sally Kirkland I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
3 December 2020 F. L. Lucas Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly… in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
3 December 2020 Judy Collins I don’t think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don’t come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.
3 December 2020 Allen Ginsberg Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.
3 December 2020 Roger Waters I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he’s going to write poetry or songs.
3 December 2020 Robert Penn Warren The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
3 December 2020 Robert Morgan You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It’s one of the great things poetry does.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
3 December 2020 Lionel Trilling The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
