If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
Anne Carson
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer... →
Raymond Carver
Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come... →
Eleanor Catton
Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
Paul Celan
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy.... →
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Raymond Chandler
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Why should poetry have to make sense?
Charlie Chaplin
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton