Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
Natalie Merchant
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
W. S. Merwin
I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to... →
Chrisette Michele
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
Bette Midler
What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
Czeslaw Milosz
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
Adrian Mitchell
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.
Joni Mitchell
My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and... →
Deborah Moggach