Poetry is life distilled.
Gwendolyn Brooks
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
James Broughton
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
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.
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
J. Carter Brown
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. Brown
God is the perfect poet.
Robert Browning