- Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
- Cheryl Hines on Poetry
- Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.
- Compay Segundo on Poetry
- Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care that's what poetry is supposed to do.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
- W. H. Auden on Poetry
- Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
- A. R. Ammons on Poetry
- Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
- Simon Callow on Poetry
- Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
- Muriel Rukeyser on Poetry
- But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
- Ian Hamilton Finlay on Poetry
- But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
- Lafcadio Hearn on Poetry
- But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
- Ian Hamilton Finlay on Poetry
- But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
- Chinua Achebe on Poetry
- But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
- John Drinkwater on Poetry
- But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
- Alfred De Vigny on Poetry
- But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
- Jeffery Deaver on Poetry
- But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
- Thomas Lynch on Poetry
- But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
- Peter Davison on Poetry
- But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
- By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
- Lascelles Abercrombie on Poetry
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