3 December 2020 John Barton My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don’t want our lives to end.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what’s in your heart.
3 December 2020 Gordon Getty I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson’s poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
3 December 2020 Diane Wakoski But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
3 December 2020 Emily Dickinson If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
3 December 2020 Guy Johnson My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
3 December 2020 Karl Shapiro Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
3 December 2020 James Martineau Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
3 December 2020 Laura Marling The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
3 December 2020 Jewel I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it’s just obtuse to them. It’s hard to relate to.
3 December 2020 Jewel I’ve always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, ‘How odd that I’m doing a record before a book of poetry,’
3 December 2020 Aaron Neville So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I’d like to publish it someday.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
3 December 2020 A. R. Ammons Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
3 December 2020 Knut Hamsun No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry – to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
3 December 2020 A. R. Ammons Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can’t imagine ourselves living without.
3 December 2020 Laura Riding Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
3 December 2020 Robert Morgan If a poem is not memorable, there’s probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
3 December 2020 Jeffery Deaver I’ve always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
3 December 2020 Robert Morgan Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
