- Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.
- James Laughlin on Poetry
- On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.
- Michael Cunningham on Poetry
- On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
- On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
- Richard Serra on Poetry
- Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
- A. R. Ammons on Poetry
- One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
- Nathalie Sarraute on Poetry
- One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
- Stephen Sondheim on Poetry
- One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Poetry
- One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
- One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
- One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.
- Ally Condie on Poetry
- One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
- Paul Muldoon on Poetry
- Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
- Julio Cortazar on Poetry
- Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
- Jack Prelutsky on Poetry
- Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
- Robert Morgan on Poetry
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