- Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry
- Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry
- Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
- Amy Clampitt on Poetry
- Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
- Robert W. Service on Poetry
- Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Don Marquis on Poetry
- Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
- John Updike on Poetry
- Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
- Ishmael Reed on Poetry
- Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
- Helen Dunmore on Poetry
- Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
- Adrian Mitchell on Poetry
- Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
- Antonin Artaud on Poetry
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