We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music... →
Elvis Costello
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think... →
Douglas Coupland
One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and... →
Peter Coyote
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more... →
Hart Crane
I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing... →
Sharon Creech
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
Robert Creeley
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never... →
Michael Cunningham
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Mario Cuomo
I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.
Will Cuppy
I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it... →
Cliff Curtis