All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all... →
Tristan Wilds
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
George Will
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of... →
C. K. Williams
I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people.... →
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest... →
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude so... →
Miller Williams
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.
I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people talking to each... →