I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.
Bobby McFerrin
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
Phyllis McGinley
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance... →
Roger McGough
Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.
I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and another on my back that says 'The Road Not... →
Steven R. McQueen
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have... →
John McWhorter
In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the... →
Jonas Mekas
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker.... →
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
H. L. Mencken
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without... →
Cheryl Mendelson