I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
Jeffery Deaver
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
John Denham
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
Felix Dennis
I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with... →
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Johnny Depp
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young... →
Jacques Derrida