Poetry is composing for the breath. Use this quote
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Use this quote
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so. Use this quote
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. Use this quote
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. Use this quote
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. Use this quote
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Use this quote
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing. Use this quote
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. Use this quote
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. Use this quote
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Use this quote
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. Use this quote
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. Use this quote
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. Use this quote
Dancing is the poetry of the foot. Use this quote
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. Use this quote
