True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
Eugenio Montale
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the... →
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian... →
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Montessori
Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find... →
Alan Moore
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't... →
Thurston Moore