If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. Abrams
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet.... →
Chinua Achebe
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet.... →
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and... →
George Matthew Adams
There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between... →
Robert Adamson
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in... →
As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.
Jhene Aiko
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
Sherman Alexie
I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality... →
Yehuda Amichai