- I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
- David Knopfler on Poetry
- I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.
- Leonard Cohen on Poetry
- I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
- Amy Winehouse on Poetry
- I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
- A. R. Ammons on Poetry
- I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
- Allen Tate on Poetry
- I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
- John Donne on Poetry
- I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
- Shelby Foote on Poetry
- I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
- Mark Strand on Poetry
- I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
- Tobias Wolff on Poetry
- I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.
- Emilio Estevez on Poetry
- I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.
- Patti Smith on Poetry
- I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun on Poetry
- I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
- Shelby Lynne on Poetry
- I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
- Wislawa Szymborska on Poetry
- I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
- Mark Strand on Poetry
- I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
- Camille Paglia on Poetry
- I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
- Boris Pasternak on Poetry
- I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
- Alfred Edward Housman on Poetry
- I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
- Seamus Heaney on Poetry
- I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
- Isaac Rosenberg on Poetry
- I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
- Anne Stevenson on Poetry
- I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
- Tom Wesselmann on Poetry
- 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.
- Luke Treadaway on Poetry
- I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
- Eugenio Montale on Poetry
- I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
- Paul Dirac on Poetry
- I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
- I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
- Anne Stevenson on Poetry
- I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.
- Diane Wakoski on Poetry
- I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.
- Will Cuppy on Poetry
- I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
- Charles Olson on Poetry
- I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
- John Ashbery on Poetry
- I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
- Stevie Smith on Poetry
- I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
- I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
- Amber Tamblyn on Poetry
- I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.
- Nigel Lythgoe on Poetry
- I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- 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.
- Judy Collins on Poetry
- I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
- Andrew Bird on Poetry
- I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.
- Joni Mitchell on Poetry
- I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
- J. Carter Brown on Poetry
- I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
- Russell Baker on Poetry
- I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.
- Carol Ann Duffy on Poetry
- I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda on Poetry
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.
- Paul Auster on Poetry
- I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.
- Trevor Dunn on Poetry
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