People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
I’m a lousy writer, and it shows when I try to write poetry.
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture.
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we’re lucky, we all have at least one.
In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.
I’ve been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.
I’ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself.
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
I became a very passionate Christian when I was 17. I started writing and performing poetry at different venues across the U.K. I started performing from then, really.
I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.
I’m quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
I developed a definition – which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world – that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.
‘NewsHour’ is very interested in poetry, but they’re also interested in not just that something’s cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
That’s all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction – I don’t think anyone could know how much it really means.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That’s the thing I really want to break into!
I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, ‘You’re really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something.’ And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following.
