3 December 2020 John Ciardi You don’t have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
3 December 2020 Wislawa Szymborska I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
3 December 2020 Callan McAuliffe I’m not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on ‘Paradise Lost’ to translate it.
3 December 2020 Russell Baker Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O’Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
3 December 2020 Goldwin Smith As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
3 December 2020 Louis-Ferdinand Celine The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don’t go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It’s always so.
3 December 2020 James Broughton Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
3 December 2020 Mark Strand A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
3 December 2020 Walter Savage Landor Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
3 December 2020 Richard Eberhart Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
3 December 2020 Gaston Bachelard Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
3 December 2020 A. R. Ammons The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
3 December 2020 Ed Westwick I’ve been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
3 December 2020 J. Milton Hayes I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn’t poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
3 December 2020 Philip Levine There’ll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
3 December 2020 Luke Treadaway I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I’m yet to pen a script, but it is something that I’ve been telling myself I want to do.
3 December 2020 Eugenio Montale Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
