Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. Use this quote
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. Use this quote
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. Use this quote
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before. Use this quote
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. Use this quote
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. Use this quote
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular. Use this quote
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. Use this quote
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. Use this quote
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. Use this quote
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. Use this quote
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. Use this quote
Wine is bottled poetry. Use this quote
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. Use this quote
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. Use this quote
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. Use this quote
It's not easy to define poetry. Use this quote
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice. Use this quote
